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Laura Hein, Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan

This book is a collective biography of the Ōuchi group, Ōuchi Hyōe (1888–1980), and his five students, Arisawa Hiromi...

Laura Hein, Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan

Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

Post-Mao China has seen the embrace of a neoliberal market logic that has brought the objectification and...

Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

精神疾患言説の歴史社会学-『心の病』はなぜ流行するのか [A Historical and Sociological Analysis of the Discursive Practice of Mental Illness: Why Did a Particular “Mental Sickness” Become Prevalent in a Certain Period?]

During the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), Japan's leaders encouraged the population to acquire modern knowledge from...

精神疾患言説の歴史社会学-『心の病』はなぜ流行するのか [A Historical and Sociological Analysis of the Discursive Practice of Mental Illness: Why Did a Particular “Mental Sickness” Become Prevalent in a Certain Period?]

T. Kojima, Kagakugijutsu to Risuku No Shakaigaku

This book is one of the few ambitious works written by young Japanese sociologists of science and technology. Based...

T. Kojima, Kagakugijutsu to Risuku No Shakaigaku

八輕遊台灣：國光石化的故事 [The Naphtha Cracker That Travels around Taiwan: The Story of Koukuang Petrochemical Project]

On Earth Day 2011, Taiwan's president, Ma Ying-jeou, held a press conference. He stated that the Chinese Petroleum...

八輕遊台灣：國光石化的故事 [The Naphtha Cracker That Travels around Taiwan: The Story of Koukuang Petrochemical Project]

テクノサイエンス・リスクと社会学：科学社会学の新たな展開 [The Social Risks of Technoscience]

The English title of this book is slightly misleading. Despite its emphasis on social risks, the main discussion of...

テクノサイエンス・リスクと社会学：科学社会学の新たな展開 [The Social Risks of Technoscience]

Christopher P. Hood. Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan

In 1964, two events epitomized Japan's spectacular recovery and growth after World War II. One was the Tokyo Olympics...

Christopher P. Hood. Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

Accounts of non-Western science and technology studies (STS) have proliferated in recent years. It was, however, not...

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

Shirley Sun, Socio-economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia

Don't let the awkward title of this book put you off. This is a book about an important set of issues that goes...

Shirley Sun, Socio-economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia

新中國與新科學：高分子科學在現代中國的建立 [New Science for a New China: The Institutionalization of Polymer Science in Modern China]

The People's Republic of China is now more than sixty years old, and its science has experienced five different...

新中國與新科學：高分子科學在現代中國的建立 [New Science for a New China: The Institutionalization of Polymer Science in Modern China]