TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benesch,Oleg
AU  - Kadia,Miriam Kingsberg
AU  - Vitale,Judith
TI  - Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan
T2  - Brill's Japanese Studies Library
SN  - 9789004548763
AV  - RA418 
U1  - 306.4/61 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Social medicine
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004548763
ER  -