A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. By Timothy M. Yang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $54.95. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5624-5.

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Business History Review Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI:10.1017/S0007680523000260

Emilie Y. Takayama

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A Medicated Empire is a delightful book about medicine and its relationship with busi-ness and politics as examined through the largest pharmaceutical company in prewar Japan, Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, and its colorful founder, Hoshi Hajime. The book adds a welcome new dimension to a recent corpus of scholarship on addictive drugs in Japan. Behind the “moral economy” (Miriam Kingsberg) and grotesque necropo litics (Mark Driscoll) of the Japanese empire and stimulant-addicted affluent Japan (Jeffrey Alexander) the pharmaceutical industry was there selling healing medicines and addictive drugs. 1 The modern pharmaceutical industry developed alongside new imperialism, market capitalism, mass media, and world wars. Timothy M. Yang does an outstanding job of placing Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in this larger, global context while detailing Japan-specific information about nation-state/empire building and competition over raw materials overseas. Importantly, he raises a fundamental issue concerning the Janus-faced nature of the pharmaceutical industry in a capitalist economy as the public good and profits alike.

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医药帝国：制药工业与现代日本。杨。伊萨卡：康奈尔大学出版社，2021年。注释、参考文献、索引。布，54.95美元。354页，ISBN:978-1-5017-5624-5。

《药物帝国》是一本关于医学及其与商业和政治关系的令人愉快的书，通过战前日本最大的制药公司Hoshi Pharmaceuticals及其丰富多彩的创始人Hoshi Hajime进行了研究。这本书为日本最近关于成瘾药物的学术文献增添了一个受欢迎的新维度。在日本帝国的“道德经济”（米里亚姆·金斯伯格饰）和怪诞的尸检（马克·德里斯科尔饰）以及兴奋剂成瘾的富裕日本（杰弗里·亚历山大饰）的背后，制药行业在那里销售治疗药物和成瘾药物。1现代制药工业是伴随着新帝国主义、市场资本主义、大众媒体和世界大战而发展起来的。Timothy M.Yang出色地将Hoshi Pharmaceuticals置于这一更大的全球背景下，同时详细介绍了日本关于民族国家/帝国建设和海外原材料竞争的具体信息。重要的是，他提出了一个基本问题，即在资本主义经济中，制药行业作为公共利益和利润的两面性。

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期刊介绍： The Business History Review is a quarterly publication of original research by historians, economists, sociologists, and scholars of business administration. BHR"s ongoing mission, from its 1926 inception as the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, is to encourage and aid the study of the evolution of business in all periods and all countries. The Business History Review is published in the spring, summer, autumn, and winter by Harvard Business School and is printed at The Sheridan Press in Pennsylvania.