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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Timothy M., 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Description
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"--
Physical Description:xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501756245
1501756249