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A Medicated Empire : The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan /

"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Yang, Timothy M., 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.