03568nam 2200637Ia 450 991078412810332120230124182228.01-281-36472-X97866113647241-4039-8111-610.1057/9781403981110(CKB)1000000000342763(EBL)307647(OCoLC)560465980(SSID)ssj0000115558(PQKBManifestationID)11135806(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115558(PQKBWorkID)10007682(PQKB)10869887(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8111-0(MiAaPQ)EBC307647(Au-PeEL)EBL307647(CaPaEBR)ebr10135588(CaONFJC)MIL136472(EXLCZ)99100000000034276320041022d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBuilding a modern Japan[electronic resource] science, technology, and medicine in the Meiji era and beyond /edited by Morris Low1st ed.New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53057-3 1-4039-6832-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; PART 2 TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, AND NATION6 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; ZIn 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.MedicineJapanHistoryScienceJapanHistoryJapanHistory1868-MedicineHistory.ScienceHistory.610/.952Low Morris909278MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784128103321Building a modern Japan3739903UNINA