Osiris, Volume 13
Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia

270 pages
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6-3/4 x 10
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© 1998
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Table of Contents

Contents
Morris F. Low: Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia
THE BIG PICTUREFrancesca Bray: Technics and Civilization in Late Imperial China: An Essay in the Cultural History of Technology
Lewis Pyenson: Assimilation and Innovation in Indonesian Science
Yung Sik Kim: Problems and Possibilities in the Study of the History of Korean Science
Ian Hodges: Western Science in Siam: A Tale of Two Kings
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERGraeme J. N. Gooday and Morris F. Low: Technology Transfer and Cultural Exchange: Western Scientists and Engineers Encounter Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
Steven J. Ericson: Importing Locomotives in Meiji Japan: International Business and Technology Transfer in the Railroad Industry
Kim Dong-Won and Stuart W. Leslie: Winning Markets or Winning Nobel Prizes? KAIST and the Challenges of Late Industrialization
Peter Neushul and Lawrence Badash: Harvesting the Pacific: The Blue Revolution in China and the Philippines
POLITICS, POLICY, AND DECISION MAKINGMark Elvin: Who Was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China
James R. Bartholomew: Japanese Nobel Candidates in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
UNDERSTANDING THE BODYTJ Hinrichs: New Geographies of Chinese Medicine
Chin Hsien-yu: Colonial Medical Police and Postcolonial Medical Surveillance Systems in Taiwan, 1895-1950s
Scott Bamber: Medicine, Food, and Poison in Traditional Thai Healing
Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Debating Racial Science in Wartime Japan
M. Susan Lindee: The Repatriation of Atomic Bomb Victim Body Parts to Japan: Natural Objects and Diplomacy
Margaret Lock: Deadly Disputes: Hybrid Selves and the Calculation of Deathin Japan and North America
THE BIG PICTUREFrancesca Bray: Technics and Civilization in Late Imperial China: An Essay in the Cultural History of Technology
Lewis Pyenson: Assimilation and Innovation in Indonesian Science
Yung Sik Kim: Problems and Possibilities in the Study of the History of Korean Science
Ian Hodges: Western Science in Siam: A Tale of Two Kings
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERGraeme J. N. Gooday and Morris F. Low: Technology Transfer and Cultural Exchange: Western Scientists and Engineers Encounter Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
Steven J. Ericson: Importing Locomotives in Meiji Japan: International Business and Technology Transfer in the Railroad Industry
Kim Dong-Won and Stuart W. Leslie: Winning Markets or Winning Nobel Prizes? KAIST and the Challenges of Late Industrialization
Peter Neushul and Lawrence Badash: Harvesting the Pacific: The Blue Revolution in China and the Philippines
POLITICS, POLICY, AND DECISION MAKINGMark Elvin: Who Was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China
James R. Bartholomew: Japanese Nobel Candidates in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
UNDERSTANDING THE BODYTJ Hinrichs: New Geographies of Chinese Medicine
Chin Hsien-yu: Colonial Medical Police and Postcolonial Medical Surveillance Systems in Taiwan, 1895-1950s
Scott Bamber: Medicine, Food, and Poison in Traditional Thai Healing
Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Debating Racial Science in Wartime Japan
M. Susan Lindee: The Repatriation of Atomic Bomb Victim Body Parts to Japan: Natural Objects and Diplomacy
Margaret Lock: Deadly Disputes: Hybrid Selves and the Calculation of Deathin Japan and North America
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