| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hoshi Pharmaceuticals -- History.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Pharmaceutical industry. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
HISTORY / Asia / Japan. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version Yang, Timothy M., 1981- Medicated empire Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501756245 (DLC) 2020039253 (OCoLC)1202730807 |
| ISBN |
9781501756269 electronic book |
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1501756265 electronic book |
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9781501756252 electronic book |
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1501756257 electronic book |
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9781501756245 hardcover |
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1501756249 hardcover |
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