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KMID : 0857920170200020039
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Yonsei Journal of Medical History
2017 Volume.20 No. 2 p.39 ~ p.63
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Reconstruction of Tuberculosis: The Politics of Nosology and the Identity of the Korean Traditional Medicine in Colonial Korea
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Park Seung-Mann
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Abstract
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This article examines the identity of Korean traditional medicine under the influence of western medicine in Colonial Korea by investigating conceptual reconstruction of tuberculosis. Western medicine and Korean traditional medicine, which faced each other in the time and space of modern Korea, constructed new identities through each other. This process was initially directed against Korean traditional medicine. It was because the Japanese Government-General of Korea imposed the learning of western medicine upon traditional practitioners. Korean traditional medicine, devoted to study western medicine while preserving its own theory and practice in the 1910s and 1920s, later established a new identity through the debate on the revival of Korean traditional medicine in 1934. The existing studies have explained that after the debate, Korean traditional medicine regained self-confidence and returned to its original appearances or placed itself at a level equal to or surpassing western medicine. They successfully explain the changing status of Korean traditional medicine. Meanwhile, they also show the limitation of assuming it as a fixed subject. In their descriptions, Korean traditional
medicine only adjusted its attitude toward western medicine while keeping its knowledge system intact. However, the re-drawn Korean traditional medicine was a new kind of thing, far from the traditional or western medicine. In the 1930s, Korean traditional medicine produced hybrid theory, a compound of the traditional and the western.
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KEYWORD
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Korean traditional medicine, Western medicine, Tuberculosis, Disease classification, Identity, Debate on the revival of Korean traditional medicine, Germ theory, Hybrid theory
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