Drugs and the politics of consumption in Japan /

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 Authors: Vitale, Judith (Editor), Kadia, Miriam Kingsberg, 1981- (Editor), Benesch, Oleg (Editor)
Other title:CU Boulder Author Collection
CU Boulder Author Collection.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Series:Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 74.
Subjects:
Drugs > Japan > History.
Pharmacy > Japan > History.
Drug abuse > Japan > History.
Médicaments > Japon > Histoire.
Toxicomanie > Japon > Histoire.
Drug abuse.
Drug control.
Japan.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Drugs and the politics of consumption in Japan / Oleg Benesch, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia and Judith Vitale
  • Early modern Japan and the problem of "drugs"/ Jonas Rüegg
  • Wondrous worms and exotic drugs : chasing the "parasites of the five viscera" in a Nichibunken manuscript / Anna Andreeva
  • Peoples' remedies or social poisons : Toyama patent medicines, Japan's biomedical regime, and the problem of consumer capitalism / Timothy Yang
  • Opium production in the early Meiji period : the influence of the traditional distribution system / Kōji Ozaki
  • "Nothing less than gentlemen" : social activities and spaces of opium smoking in Taiwan from the Qing period to the Japanese colonial period / Hung Bin Hsu
  • The house of Samuel : opium supplier to Taiwan and Manchuria, 1896-1926 / William G. Clarence-Smith
  • The Japanese right wing and the drug trade, 1923-1945 / Christopher W.A. Szpilman
  • Opiate addiction in prewar Japan / Judith Vitale
  • From other to self : illegal drug addicts in imperial and post-imperial Japanese fiction / Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
  • The drugs of war and empire : drug consumption and narcotics trafficking during the occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 / Jesús Solís
  • The politics of violence, glue-sniffing, and liberation : exclusions and possibilities in 1968 Japan / William Marotti
  • Japan's magic mushroom moment : legality, morality, and identity in the Heisei Era / Oleg Benesch
  • Conclusion: Early scholarship on drugs in Japanese history / John Jennings.

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