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A Medicated Empire The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan
Title
A Medicated Empire The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan / Timothy M. Yang.
ISBN
9781501756269
1501756265
9781501756252
1501756257
9781501756245
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Local Notes
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Summary
"This book is a business history of a transnational Japanese pharmaceutical company in the early twentieth century, Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, and a commodity history of its involvement in opium, quinine, and consumer medicines in both Japan and its expanding empire"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 21, 2021
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Contents
A strategic industry
The supposed self-made man and his company
Marketing a culture of self-sedication
Medicinal infrastructures and medical missionaries
The scandal of opium (and the colonial exception)
Things fall apart
Selling the science of quinine self-sufficiency
War and drugs.
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