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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"--
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York]
Cornell University Press
2021
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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