A medicated empire the pharmaceutical industry and modern Japan Timothy M. Yang

By:

Yang, Timothy M, 1981- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublisher: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781501756269
1501756265
9781501756252
1501756257

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Additional physical formats: Print version: Medicated empireDDC classification:

338.7/616151095209041 23

LOC classification:

HD9672.J29 Y354 2021

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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

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"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

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