Building a modern Japan [[electronic resource] ] : science, technology, and medicine in the Meiji era and beyond / / edited by Morris Low

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 610/.952
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Japan - History; Science - Japan - History
• Soggetto geografico: Japan History 1868-
• 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: 1-281-36472-X; 9786611364724; 1-4039-8111-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784128103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II