| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 290 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia |
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
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| Contents |
Introduction / David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown -- On science and faith in the life of a Meiji engineer / Aleksandra Kobiljski -- Academia-industry relations: interpreting the role of Nagai Nagayoshi in the development of new businesses in the Meiji period and beyond / Julia S. Yongue -- An emperor's chemist in war and peace: Sakurai Jōji during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I / Kikuchi Yishiyuki -- Buddhism contra cholera: how the Meiji state recruited religion against epidemic disease / William D. Johnston -- The influenza pandemic of 1918, Taishō Democracy and freedom of the press during the Siberian Intervention -- The politics of manic depression in the Japanese empire / Janice Matsumura -- A colony of a sanitorium? A comparative history of segregation politics of Hansen's disease in modern Japan / Hirokawa Waka -- "They are not human": Hansen's disease and medical responses to Hōjō Tamio -- Dr. Baelz's Mongolian spot: German medicine, discourse of race in Meiji Japan, and the local response / Rotem Kowner -- When precision obscures: disease categories related to cholera during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) / Roberto Padilla -- Kampō in wartime Sino-Japanese relations: the Association of East Medicine and the search for a tripartite medical partnership / Norihito Mizuno -- The question of research in prewar Japanese physics / Ito Kenji -- Architects of ABC weapons for the Japanese empire: microbiologists and theoretical physicists / Tomoko Y. Steen -- The science of population and birth control in post-war Japan / Homei Aya -- Afterword: is there anything unique about modern Japanese science? / James R. Bartholomew |
| Summary |
Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position itself within the civilized and enlightened world with the advantages of modern science, technologies, and medicine. This book explores the ways in which scientists, engineers and physicians worked directly and indirectly to support the creation of a new Japanese empire, focussing on the eve of World War I and linking their efforts to later post-war developments. By claiming status as a modern, internationally-engaged country, the Japanese government was faced with having to control pathogens that might otherwise not have threatened the nation. Through the use of traditional and innovative techniques, this volume shows how the government was able to fulfil the state's responsibility to protect society to varying degrees |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-286) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Japan -- History
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Science -- Japan -- History
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Technology -- Japan -- History
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Medicine -- History.
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History of Medicine
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Science -- history
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Technology -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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history of medicine.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Medicine
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Science
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Technology
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- 1868- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069494
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Japan https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007564 |
| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wittner, David G., editor
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Brown, Philip C., editor
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| ISBN |
9781317444367 |
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1317444361 |
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9781315695914 |
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131569591X |
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