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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765801403321

Autore

Wittner David G

Titolo

Science, technology, and medicine in the modern Japanese Empire / / edited by David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2016

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-69591-X

1-317-44435-3

1-317-44436-1

9781315695914

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (chapter 14, pages 227 - 243) : digital file(s)

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 113

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownPhilip C. <1947->

WittnerDavid G

Disciplina

509.52

Soggetti

Medicine - Japan - History

Science - Japan - History

Japan History 1868-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. On science and faith in the life of a Meiji engineer / Aleksandra Kobiljski -- 2. Academia-industry relations : interpreting the role of Nagai Nagayoshi in the development of new businesses in the Meiji period and beyond / Julia S. Yongue -- 3. An emperor's chemist in war and peace : Sakurai Joji during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I / Kikuchi Yoshiyuki -- 4. Buddhism contra cholera : how the Meiji state recruited religion against epidemic disease / William D. Johnston -- 5. The influenza pandemic of 1918, Taisho democracy and freedom of the press during the Siberian intervention / Sumiko Otsubo -- 6. The politics of manic depression in the Japanese empire / Janice Matsumura -- 7. A colony or a sanitorium? A comparative history of segregation politics of Hansen's disease in modern Japan / Hirokawa Waka -- 8. "They are not human" : Hansen's disease and medical responses to Hojo Tamio / Kathryn M. Tanaka -- 9. Dr. Baelz's Mongolian spot : German medicine, discourse of race in Meiji Japan, and the local response / Rotem Kowner -- 10. When precision obscures : disease



categories related to cholera during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) / Roberto Padilla -- 11. Kampo in wartime Sino-Japanese relations : the Association of East Asian Medicine and the search for a tripartite medical partnership / Norihito Mizuno -- 12. The question of research in prewar Japanese physics / Ito Kenji -- 13. Architects of ABC weapons for the Japanese empire : microbiologists and theoretical physicists / Tomoko Y. Steen -- 14. The science of population and birth control in post-war Japan / Homei Aya.

Sommario/riassunto

Medicine; Japan