Science Technology and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire 1st Edition by David G Wittner, Philip C Brown ISBN 9781138905337 113890533X

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ISBN 10: 113890533X
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Author: David G Wittner, Philip C Brown

Science Technology and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire 1st Edition Table of contents:

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 reincarnation

Conclusion

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 I

Introduction

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 Intervention

The 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 sanitarium? A comparative history of segregation politics of Hansen’s disease in modern Japan

Introduction

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 Tamio1

Introduction

The colonial encounter with Hansen’s disease in Japan

Doctors reading Hōjō Tamio

Patient experience in “Life’s First Night”

Conclusion

Notes

9 Dr. Baelz’s Mongolian spot German medicine, discourse of race in Meiji Japan, and the local response

Baelz’s integrative perspective on the Japanese “race”

German medicine and the question of race in Japan

The Japanese reaction and Baelz’s racial legacy

Notes

10 When precision obscures Disease categories related to cholera during the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895)

Introduction

The Japanese

Cholera during the war

Quarantine efforts

Conclusion

Notes

11 Kampō in wartime Sino-Japanese relations The Association of East Asian Medicine and the search for a tripartite medical partnership

The Association of East Asian Medicine and tripartite medical partnership

Programs and activities for a tripartite partnership

Limitations and frustration in the wartime search for a tripartite partnership

Conclusion

Notes

12 The question of research in prewar Japanese physics

Introduction

Kitao Diro (Jirō) and local science

Nagaoka and the Japanese capability for research

Nakamura Seiji on the Imperial Institute for Physical Research and RIKEN

Terada Torahiko and experimental physics

Ishiwara Jun and modern physics

Nishina Yoshio and atomic physics in Japan

Yukawa Hideki and Tomonaga Sin-itiro

Conclusion

Notes

13 Architects of ABC weapons for the Japanese empire Microbiologists and theoretical physicists

Introduction

A case of biological and chemical weapons development

Atomic weapons development

Conclusion

Notes

14 The science of population and birth control in post-war Japan

Introduction

The “population problem” and the state birth control campaign in the immediate post-war period

Birth control in public health, Japanese demography, and American population controllers

Conclusion

Acknowledgement

Notes

Afterword: Is there anything unique about modern Japanese science?

Case studies: Yamagiwa Katsusaburō and Yukawa Hideki

Uniqueness, particularity, and culture

Yamagiwa Katsusaburō and the founding of chemical carcinogenesis

Yukawa Hideki, Buddhism, Confucianism, and quantum physics

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Archives

Newspapers

Primary and archival sources

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