KMID : 0389220120210020227
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Korean Journal of Medical History 2012 Volume.21 No. 2 p.227 ~ p.250
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Introduction of Western medicine and change of term of "tuberculosis" in Korea
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Choi Eun-Kyung
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Abstract
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In this article, I figured out ¡¯tuberculosis¡¯ as prominent example of relationship between introduction of western medicine and change of disease term. Tuberculosis is one of the examples of incomplete substitution of oriental/lay/non-scientific disease term by western/scientific disease term in colonial society. Western medicine practitioner in Korea had started to find and treat tuberculosis right after Koch¡¯s discovery of the tubercule bacillus (1882). It was ¡¯Kyulhak¡¯ that includes germ theory and the newest medical knowledge, but ¡¯heasobyun¡¯which means coughing disease, and ¡¯bujockjung¡¯which means consumptive disease were also newly introduced as lay term. There also had been traditional term ¡¯nochae¡¯ which already recognized as similar term of phthisis, redefined as only oriental medicine term after introduction of western medicine. Despite of reception of the term ¡¯kyulhak¡¯ in Korean society, these terms were widely used instead of ¡¯kyulhak¡¯ during the colonial period.
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KEYWORD
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tuberculosis, introduction of western medicine, bujockjung¡¯, heasobyun, nochae, disease term
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