Note to the Reader

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Note to the Reader xvi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Drug Industry, Entrepreneurship, and the State
7. 1. A Strategic Industry 19
8. 2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company 38
9. Part II. Marketing Medicines and Medicinal Infrastructures
10. 3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication 69
11. 4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries 105
12. Part III. The Opium Empire
13. 5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception) 135
14. 6. Things Fall Apart 162
15. Part IV. Science, Self-Sufficiency, and Wartime Mobilization
16. 7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency 185
17. 8. War and Drugs 208
18. Epilogue 231
19. Notes 239
20. Bibliography 297
21. Index 323
22. Selected Titles 333