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UNINA9910970113703321 |
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Titolo |
Building a Modern Japan : Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond / / edited by M. Low |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786611364724 |
9781281364722 |
128136472X |
9781403981110 |
1403981116 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2005.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Asia - History |
Science - History |
Music |
Ethnology |
Culture |
Japan - History |
Asian History |
History of Science |
Regional Cultural Studies |
History of Japan |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; PART 1 SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND A HEALTHY NATION; 1 The Rise of Western "Scientific Medicine" in Japan: Bacteriology and Beriberi; 2 Male Anxieties: Nerve Force, Nation, and the Power of Sexual Knowledge; 3 The Female Body and Eugenic Thought in Meiji Japan; 4 Racializing Bodies through Science in Meiji Japan: The Rise of Race-Based Research in Gynecology; 5 Doctors, Disease, and Development: Engineering Colonial Public Health in Southern Manchuria, 1905-1926; |
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PART 2 TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, AND NATION |
6 The Mechanization of Japan's Silk Industry and the Quest for Progress and Civilization, 1870-18807 A Miracle of Industry: The Struggle to Produce Sheet Glass in Modernizing Japan; 8 Modernity and Carpenters: Daiku Technique and Meiji Technocracy; 9 The Impact of the Great Depression: The Japan Spinners Association, 1927-1936; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. It has been acknowledged that state policy was important in the development of industries but how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others. The first part deals with the role of science and medicine in creating a healthy nation. The second part of the book is devoted to examining the role of technology, and business-state relations in building a modern nation. |
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