Science, technology, and medicine in the modern Japanese empire / david G. Wittner; Philip C. Brown
(Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版者 | Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
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| 内容注記 | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; Note on transliteration; Introduction; Notes; 1. On science and faith in the life of a Meiji engineer; Introduction; The school and the congregation; The Kumamoto School for Western Learning: catching up with the Restoration; Jesus the magician: conversion and misunderstanding; Fighting against scientific atheism: the making of a Christian scientist?; Theory and practice: from science teacher to chemical industry; Working pressure The Religion of Jesus, spirits, and reincarnationConclusion; Notes; 2. Academia-industry relations: interpreting the role of Nagai Nagayoshi in the development of new businesses in the Meiji period and beyond; Introduction; Nagai's Meiji period industry role: Dainippon Seiyaku; New businesses in the Taishō period: Naikoku Pharmaceutical Company; Technological innovation at local businesses: the case of the Awa indigo business; Industry-academia ties in Tokushima prefecture: Tomita Pharmaceutical Company; Conclusions; Notes 3. An emperor's chemist in war and peace: Sakurai Jōji during the Russo-Japanese War and World War IIntroduction; Nationalism/patriotism echoed: Sakurai and William Ramsay at University College London; Turning point: Sakurai during the Russo-Japanese War; Sakurai during the First World War; Conclusions; Notes; 4. Buddhism contra cholera: how the Meiji state recruited religion against epidemic disease; Introduction; A peculiar publication; Cholera in Japan to 1880; Cultural reflections of cholera; Text and context of Korera yobō no satoshi; Conclusion; Notes 5. The influenza pandemic of 1918, Taishō Democracy and freedom of the press during the Siberian InterventionThe 1918 pandemic; Taishō Democracy, the Osaka Asahi and the growth of press censorship; Censorship, influenzas, and the Siberian Intervention; Limited censorship: Taishō Democracy or special circumstances?; Acknowledgements; Notes; 6. The politics of manic depression in the Japanese empire; Manic depression and degeneration; Manic depression, character, and crime; Manic depression and civilized status; Manic depression, climate, and Nanshin policy; Conclusion; Notes 7. A colony or a sanitorium? A comparative history of segregation politics of Hansen's disease in modern JapanIntroduction; Legislation on the treatment of Hansen's disease sufferers in prewar and wartime Japan; Two proposed plans for the treatment of Hansen's disease sufferers; A free area for Hansen's sufferers had already appeared; Two plans by the Sanitation Investigation Council in 1920 and their consequences; Conclusion; Notes; 8. "They are not human": Hansen's disease and medical responses to Hōjō Tamio; Introduction; The colonial encounter with Hansen's disease in Japan |
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| 一般注記 | Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position itself within the civilized and enlightened world with the advantages of modern science, technologies, and medicine. This book explores the ways in which scientists, engineers and physicians worked directly and indirectly to support the creation of a new Japanese empire, focussing on the eve of World War I and linking their efforts to later post-war developments. By claiming status as a modern, internationally-engaged country, the Japanese government was faced with having to control pathogens that might otherwise not have threatened the nation. Through the use of traditional and innovative techniques, this volume shows |
| 著者標目 | Wittner, David G. Brown, Philip C. |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Medicine -- Japan -- History
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| 分 類 | DC22:950 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:9781317444367  ISBN:1317444361 XISBN:9781138905337 XISBN:113890533X XISBN:1317444353 XISBN:1317444345
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| ISBN | 9781317444367 |
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