Drugs and the politics of consumption in Japan / edited by Judith Vitale, Oleg Benesch and Miriam Kingsberg Kadia

In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the early twentieth century, over-the-counter-patent medicines, and, more alarmingly, morphine, had become mass commodities, fueling debates over opiates in J...

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Superior document:Brill's Japanese Studies Library 74
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2023
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's Japanese Studies Library 74
Physical Description:1 online resource (300 pages) :; illustrations.
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