Building a Modern Japan : Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond / / edited by M. Low

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2005.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 610/.952
• Soggetto topico: Asia - History; Science - History; Music; Ethnology; Culture; Japan - History; Asian History; History of Science; Regional Cultural Studies; History of Japan
• Altri autori: LowMorris
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Building a Modern Japan
• ISBN: 9786611364724; 9781281364722; 128136472X; 9781403981110; 1403981116
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970113703321
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