| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Science, Medicine and a Healthy Nation -- The Rise of Scientific Medicine in Japan: Bacteriology and Beriberi /Christian Oberlander -- Male Anxieties: Nerve Force, Nation, and the Power of Sexual Knowledge /Sabine Fruhstuck -- The Female Body and Eugenic Thought in Meiji Japan /Sumiko Otsubo -- Racialising of Bodies Through Science in Meiji Japan: The Rise of Race-Based Research in Gynecology / Yuki Terazawa -- Doctors, Disease and Development: Engineering Colonial Public Health in Southern Manchurua, 1905-1926 /Robert J. Perrins -- Technology, Industry and Nation -- The Mechanization of Japan's Silk Industry and the Quest for Progress and Civilization, 1870-1880 /David G. Wittner -- A Miracle of Industry: The Struggle to Produce Sheet Glass in Modernizing Japan / Martha Chaiklin -- The Modernity of Carpenters: Daiku Technique and Meiji Technocracy / Gregory Clancey -- The Impact of the Great Depression: The Japan Spinners Association, 1927-1936 /W. Miles Fletcher |
| Summary |
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. But how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Medicine -- Japan -- History
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Science -- Japan -- History
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Medicine -- History.
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Science -- history
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History of Medicine
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Industry -- history
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Social Change -- history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 19th Century
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history of medicine.
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Regional studies -- Asia.
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Asian history -- Asia.
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History of science -- Asia.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Geography.
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Medicine
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Science
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Vernieuwing.
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Wetenschap.
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Technologie.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- 1868- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069494
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Japan |
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Low, Morris
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| LC no. |
2004062063 |
| ISBN |
9781403981110 |
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1403981116 |
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9781403968326 |
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1403968322 |
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9786611364724 |
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6611364722 |
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