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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yang, Timothy M., 1981- author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Cornell scholarship online.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hoshi Pharmaceuticals--History.

Hoshi Pharmaceuticals.

Pharmaceutical industry--History--Japan--20th century.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London, England : Cornell University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia's most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshi's connections to Japan's emerging nation-state and empire, and on the ways in which it embraced an ideology of modern medicine as a humanitarian endeavor for greater social good, Yang shows how the industry promoted a hygienic, middle-class culture that was part of Japan's national development and imperial expansion. Yang makes clear that the company's fortunes had less to do with scientific breakthroughs and medical innovations than with Japan's web of social, political, and economic relations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note to the Reader

Introduction

Part I. The Drug Industry, Entrepreneurship, and the State

1. A Strategic Industry

2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company

Part II. Marketing Medicines and Medicinal Infrastructures

3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication

4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries

Part III. The Opium Empire

5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception)

6. Things Fall Apart

Part IV. Science, Self-Sufficiency, and Wartime Mobilization

7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency

8. War and Drugs

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Selected Titles

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501779176

1501779176

9781501756245

1501756249

OCLC:

1257324492