Building a Modern Japan : Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond / edited by M. Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Low, Morris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--History.

Asia.

Science--History.

Science.

Music.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Japan--History.

Japan.

Asian History.

History of Science.

Regional Cultural Studies.

History of Japan.

Local Subjects:

Asian History.

History of Science.

Music.

Regional Cultural Studies.

History of Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. It has been acknowledged that state policy was important in the development of industries but how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others. The first part deals with the role of science and medicine in creating a healthy nation. The second part of the book is devoted to examining the role of technology, and business-state relations in building a modern nation.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; PART 1 SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND A HEALTHY NATION; 1 The Rise of Western "Scientific Medicine" in Japan: Bacteriology and Beriberi; 2 Male Anxieties: Nerve Force, Nation, and the Power of Sexual Knowledge; 3 The Female Body and Eugenic Thought in Meiji Japan; 4 Racializing Bodies through Science in Meiji Japan: The Rise of Race-Based Research in Gynecology; 5 Doctors, Disease, and Development: Engineering Colonial Public Health in Southern Manchuria, 1905-1926; PART 2 TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, AND NATION

6 The Mechanization of Japan's Silk Industry and the Quest for Progress and Civilization, 1870-18807 A Miracle of Industry: The Struggle to Produce Sheet Glass in Modernizing Japan; 8 Modernity and Carpenters: Daiku Technique and Meiji Technocracy; 9 The Impact of the Great Depression: The Japan Spinners Association, 1927-1936; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611364724

9781281364722

128136472X

9781403981110

1403981116

OCLC:

560465980