| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) illustrations |
| 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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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Hoshi Pharmaceuticals -- History
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
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Pharmaceutical industry
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020039254 |
| ISBN |
9781501756269 |
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1501756265 |
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9781501756252 |
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1501756257 |
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