Drugs and the politics of consumption in Japan / edited by Judith Vitale, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Oleg Benesch.
"In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the early twentieth century, over-the-counter-patent medicines, and, more alarmingly, morphine, had become mass commodities, fueling debates over opiate...
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| Other title: | CU Boulder Author Collection CU Boulder Author Collection. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Brill's Japanese studies library ;
Volume 74. |
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| Summary: | "In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the early twentieth century, over-the-counter-patent medicines, and, more alarmingly, morphine, had become mass commodities, fueling debates over opiates in Japan's expanding imperial territories. The fall of the empire and the occupation of Japan by the United States created conditions favorable for heroin use, followed, in time, by glue sniffing and psychedelic mushroom ingestion. By illuminating the neglected history of drugs, this volume highlights both the transnational embeddedness and national peculiarities of the "politics of consumption" in Japan. Contributors are: Anna Andreeva, Oleg Benesch, William G. Clarence-Smith, Hung Bin Hsu, John Jennings, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, William Marotti, Kōji Ozaki, Jonas Rüegg, Jesús Solís, Christopher W.A. Szpilman, Judith Vitale, and Timothy Yang"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004548442 9004548440 |
| ISSN: | 0925-6512 ; |