A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan

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Author(s): Timothy M. Yang

Language: English

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction
Part I THE DRUG INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND THE STATE
1. A Strategic Industry
2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company
Part II MARKETING MEDICINES AND MEDICINAL INFRASTRUCTURES
3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication
4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries
Part III THE OPIUM EMPIRE
5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception)
6. Things Fall Apart
Part IV SCIENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND WARTIME MOBILIZATION
7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency
8. War and Drugs
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index