Opiates and the ‘Therapeutic Revolution’ in Japan
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Summary This article argues that the widespread use of opiate-compounded medicines in late-nineteenth-century Japan was partly a result of Meiji period (1868–1912) public health policies. An overview of the status of opiates in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries is intended to explain possible reasons: pharmaceutical reforms in the 1870s and 1880s were based on Edo-period (1603–1868) protostructures of regulated drug manufacture; in contrast, the Meiji government failed to introduce Western clinical practice within a short span of time. As a result opiates, marketed as Western ‘modern’ medicines, were smoothly integrated into pre-existing beliefs, according to which drugs and diets maintained bodily health.
2002 ◽
Vol 18
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pp. 1-22
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2006 ◽
Vol 131
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pp. 1-37
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1999 ◽
Vol 73
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pp. 238-267
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Vol 82
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pp. 1027-1043
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2017 ◽
Vol 46
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pp. 150-163
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