Project MUSE - A Medicated Empire
A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japans pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asias most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshis connections to Japans emerging nation-state and empire, and on the ways in which it embraced an ideology of modern medicine as a humanitarian endeavor for greater social good, Yang shows how the industry promoted ...
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