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.
Subjects:
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.