{"product_id":"a-medicated-empire-9781501756245","title":"A Medicated Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business History\u003cbr\u003eFinalist of the 2023 International Convention for Asian Scholars Book Prize in the Social Sciences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Medicated Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYang 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. He\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from the archives of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, Yang has written a thought-provoking history of the pharmaceutical industry in Japan. This important and readable book provides insights into the history of not only Japan but the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Medicated Empire\u003c\/i\u003e provides an important addition to our knowledge of the so-called self-made men of the Meiji period.\u003c\/p\u003e * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: THE DRUG INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND THE STATE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Strategic Industry\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: MARKETING MEDICINES AND MEDICINAL INFRASTRUCTURES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication\u003cbr\u003e 4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: THE OPIUM EMPIRE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Things Fall Apart\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1V: SCIENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND WARTIME MOBILIZATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency\u003cbr\u003e 8. War and Drugs\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409352204631,"sku":"9781501756245","price":88.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501756245.jpg?v=1730506520","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-medicated-empire-9781501756245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}