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Building a Modern Japan : Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond by Morris Low (2005, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-101403968322

ISBN-139781403968326

eBay Product ID (ePID)43881285

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXiv, 242 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBuilding a Modern Japan : Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond

Publication Year2005

SubjectAsia / Japan, Asia / General, General, History

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMusic, Science, History

AuthorMorris Low

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-062063

Reviews"It seems that a new scholarship is emerging from English-writing scholars of Japanese modernization and industrialization. This book admirably covers different aspects of Japanese modernization, science and technology, gender, health care and traditional technology especially from the viewpoint of cultural and gender studies." -Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University "A pioneering study in English of how science, medicine, and technology helped to transform Japan in the turbulent years after the Meiji Restoration. Morris Low is to be praised for assembling this excellent collection." -James R. Bartholomew, The Ohio State University "Low is to be commended for assembling a collection of such valueable essays by both leading senioe and junior scholars in Building a Modern Japan . What this collection--together with some of Low's other recently published works--proves is that the history of science of Japan has indeed become a well-established and growning field outside Japan itself." -Walter Grunden, ISIS, "It seems that a new scholarship is emerging from English-writing scholars of Japanese modernization and industrialization. This book admirably covers different aspects of Japanese modernization, science and technology, gender, health care and traditional technology especially from the viewpoint of cultural and gender studies." - Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University "A pioneering study in English of how science, medicine, and technology helped to transform Japan in the turbulent years after the Meiji Restoration. Morris Low is to be praised for assembling this excellent collection." - James R. Bartholomew, The Ohio State University"Low is to be commended for assembling a collection of such valueable essays by both leading senioe and junior scholars in Building a Modern Japan. What this collection - together with some of Low's other recently published works - proves is that the history of science of Japan has indeed become a well-established and growning field outside Japan itself." - Walter Grunden, ISIS, "It seems that a new scholarship is emerging from English-writing scholars of Japanese modernization and industrialization. This book admirably covers different aspects of Japanese modernization, science and technology, gender, health care and traditional technology especially from the viewpoint of cultural and gender studies."--Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University "A pioneering study in English of how science, medicine, and technology helped to transform Japan in the turbulent years after the Meiji Restoration. Morris Low is to be praised for assembling this excellent collection." --James R. Bartholomew, The Ohio State University "Low is to be commended for assembling a collection of such valueable essays by both leading senioe and junior scholars in "Building a Modern Japan," What this collection--together with some of Low's other recently published works--proves is that the history of science of Japan has indeed become a well-established and growning field outside Japan itself." -- Walter Grunden, "ISIS", "It seems that a new scholarship is emerging from English-writing scholars of Japanese modernization and industrialization. This book admirably covers different aspects of Japanese modernization, science and technology, gender, health care and traditional technology especially from the viewpoint of cultural and gender studies."--Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University "A pioneering study in English of how science, medicine, and technology helped to transform Japan in the turbulent years after the Meiji Restoration. Morris Low is to be praised for assembling this excellent collection." --James R. Bartholomew, The Ohio State University, "It seems that a new scholarship is emerging from English-writing scholars of Japanese modernization and industrialization. This book admirably covers different aspects of Japanese modernization, science and technology, gender, health care and traditional technology especially from the viewpoint of cultural and gender studies."--Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University "A pioneering study in English of how science, medicine, and technology helped to transform Japan in the turbulent years after the Meiji Restoration. Morris Low is to be praised for assembling this excellent collection." --James R. Bartholomew, The Ohio State University "Low is to be commended for assembling a collection of such valueable essays by both leading senioe and junior scholars in Building a Modern Japan. What this collection--together with some of Low's other recently published works--proves is that the history of science of Japan has indeed become a well-established and growning field outside Japan itself." -- Walter Grunden, ISIS, "It seems that a new scholarship is emerging from English-writing scholars of Japanese modernization and industrialization. This book admirably covers different aspects of Japanese modernization, science and technology, gender, health care and traditional technology especially from the viewpoint of cultural and gender studies." Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University "A pioneering study in English of how science, medicine, and technology helped to transform Japan in the turbulent years after the Meiji Restoration. Morris Low is to be praised for assembling this excellent collection." James R. Bartholomew, The Ohio State University "Low is to be commended for assembling a collection of such valueable essays by both leading senioe and junior scholars in Building a Modern Japan . What this collection--together with some of Low's other recently published works--proves is that the history of science of Japan has indeed become a well-established and growning field outside Japan itself." Walter Grunden, ISIS

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal610/.952

Table Of ContentScience, Medicine and a Healthy Nation The Rise of Scientific Medicine in Japan: The Quest for Special Causes, Hospital Medicine, and the Introduction of the Laboratory; C.Oberlander Male Anxieties: Nerve Force, Nation, and the Power of Sexual Knowledge; S.Fruhstuck The Female Body and Eugenic Thought in Meiji Japan; S.Otsubo The Racialising of Bodies through Science in Meiji Japan: The Rise of Race-based Research in Gynaecology; Y.Terazawa Building a Strong and Healthy Empire: Colonial Medicine in Taiwan; S.Liu Doctors, Disease and Development: Engineering Colonial Public Health in Southern Manchurua, 1905-1926; R.J.Perrins Technology, Industry and Nation The Mechanization of Japan's Silk Industry and the Quest for Progress and Civilization, 1870-1880; D.G.Wittner A Miracle of Industry: The Struggle to Produce Sheet Glass in Modernizing Japan; M.Chaiklin The Modernity of Carpenters: Daiku Technique and Meiji Technocracy; G.Clancey Government and Business Relations: The Amalgomation of the Iron and Steel Industry, 1916-1934; P.von Staden The Impact of the Great Depression: The Japan Spinners Association, 1927-1936; W.M.Fletcher

SynopsisIn 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberDS1-937