Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945
Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945
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Abstract
This book surveys the transformation of medical practice in Korea from the late 19th century to the present, detailing the numerous changes involved as late Choson Korea (1876-1910) gave way to Japanese colonization (1910-1945), the post-war American Occupation (1945-1948), and an independent Republic of Korea (ROK) (1948- ), with the Korean War soon to come. Moreover, the book focuses on the corresponding history of medical intervention—sanitary, surgical, and preventive public health—by a wide array of private, university-based, and state-led actors, emphasizing that the so-called “Miracle of the Han,” the mythic rise of the South Korean economy from the mid-1960s, was accompanied by a parallel effort to measure, understand, and ultimately reshape the bodies of Koreans to create a new type of citizen, thereby binding that individual to the state though biomedical practice. These forms of intervention would include large-scale public health efforts directed at specific diseases—tuberculosis, leprosy, intestinal parasites—along with related state-directed campaigns of the 1960s, especially Family Planning. Ultimately, the book argues that the newly redefined relationship between the individual, the body, and the state, along with marketplace forces and an emerging national health insurance scheme, offers a great deal toward explaining the flexibility with which South Koreans now treat their own bodies, increasingly engaging in a variety of surgical enhancements since the late 1990s in a market framed by the neoliberal rhetoric of choice.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Medicine as a Form of “Ordinary Shopping”
John Paul DiMoia
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I From Occupation to Nation
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Medicine and Its Fragments, 1945–1948
John Paul DiMoia
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Mobilizing New Models of Public Health and Medicine, 1945–1948
John Paul DiMoia
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“From Minneapolis to Seoul”: Transforming Surgery, Clinical Practice, and Professional Identity at Seoul National University Hospital, 1954–1968
John Paul DiMoia
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Medicine and Its Fragments, 1945–1948
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II Meet the State
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Family Planning and Nation Building in South Korea, 1961 through the mid-1970s
John Paul DiMoia
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Taking Samples for the Nation: Historicizing the Biological Sample in the South Korean Antiparasite Campaigns, 1969–1995
John Paul DiMoia
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Reconstructing the Face: “Asian Blepharoplasty,” Professional Expertise, and the Development of a Plastic Surgery Market, 1954 to the Present
John Paul DiMoia
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Conclusion: Challenging Developmental Expectations
John Paul DiMoia
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Family Planning and Nation Building in South Korea, 1961 through the mid-1970s
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