Beyond Joseph Needham
Subtitle: science, technology, and medicine in East and South East Asia
By: edited by Morris F. Low.
Contributors: Low, Morris.
Series: Osiris -- 2nd ser., v. 13; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 13.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Needham, Joseph, -- 1900-; Science -- Asia -- History; Science -- China -- History; Science -- Japan -- History; Technology -- Asia -- History; Technology -- China -- History; Technology -- Japan -- History; Medicine -- Asia; Medicine -- China -- History; Medicine -- Japan -- History; Medicine -- Thailand
Notes: Gift of Henry G. Schwarz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond Joseph Needham: science, technology, and medicine in East and Southeast Asia / Morris F. Low; title: Technics and civilization in late imperial china: an essay in the cultural history of technology / Francesca Bray; title: Assimilation and innovation in Indonesian science / Lewis Pyenson; title: Problems and possibilities in the study of the history of Korean science / Yung Sik Kim; title: Western science in Siam: a tale of two kings / Ian Hodges; title: Technology transfer and cultural exchange: western scientists and engineers encounter late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan / Graeme J.N. Gooday and Morris F. Low; title: Importing locomotives in Meiji Japan: international business and technology transfer in the railroad industry / Steven J. Ericson; title: Winning markets or winning Nobel Prizes? KAIST and the challenges of late industrialization / Kim Dong-Won and Stuart W. Leslie; title: Harvesting the Pacific: the blue revolution in China and the Philippines / Peter Neushul and Lawrence Badash; title: Who was responsible for the weather? Moral meteorology in late imperial China / Mark Elvin; title: Japanese Nobel candidates in the first half of the twentieth century / James R. Bartholomew; title: New geographies of Chinese medicine / T.J. Hinrichs; title: Colonial medical police and postcolonial medical surveillance systems in Taiwan, 1895-1950s / Chin Hsien-Yu; title: Medicine, food, and poison in traditional Thai healing / Scott Bomber; title: Debating racial science in wartime Japan / Tessa Morris-Suzuki; title: The repatriation of atomic bomb victim body parts to Japan: natural objects and diplomacy / M. Susan Lindee; title: Deadly disputes: hybrid selves and the calculation of death in Japan and North America / Margaret Lock.