RT Book
T1 Drugs and the politics of consumption in Japan
T2 Brill's Japanese studies library
JF Brill's Japanese studies library
A2 Vitale, Judith 1973-
A2 Kadia, Miriam Kingsberg 1981-
A2 Benesch, Oleg
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854812890
AB "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"--
AB This book examines the history of drugs in Japan over four centuries, from the early modern period through the present day, showing how the definition, consumption, and regulation of substances both shaped and reflected trends in Japanese society
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN RS67.J3
SN 9789004548442
K1 Drugs : Japan : History
K1 Pharmacy : Japan : History
K1 Drug Abuse : Japan : History
K1 Asian History
K1 Asiatische Geschichte
K1 Drogenhandel
K1 Drugs trade / drug trafficking
K1 HISTORY / Asia / General
K1 HISTORY / Middle East / General
K1 Social Science / Criminology
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Japan : Drogenkonsum : Drogenhandel : Opium : Drogenpolitik : Geschichte