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"The circulation of medicine and medical knowledge in Britain was long entangled not simply with the mechanisms of commerce but with those of empire. The same networks that enabled the articulation and defense of imperial priorities also transmitted knowledge and value in ways that ultimately...

"This book is a business history of a transnational Japanese pharmaceutical company in the early twentieth century, Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, and a commodity history of its involvement in opium, quinine, and consumer medicines in both Japan and its expanding empire."

Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the Pharmaceutical Society of...