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KMID : 0861020030180040309
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Korea Journal of Herbology
2003 Volume.18 No. 4 p.309 ~ p.314
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A Study of Professional Conflicts in Korea
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申舜植/Shin, Soon Shik
李炫知/徐富一/Lee, Hyun Ji/Seo, Bu-il
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Abstract
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Objectives: The occupational areas of Korean Oriental Medicine doctors and pharmacists are different. However, in Korea many pharmacists have practiced Korean Oriental Medicine. Therefore, the two professions have competed and conflicted to monopolize the Korean Oriental Medicine market.
This paper analyzes the conflicts between Korean Oriental Medicine doctors and pharmacists in Korea. The object of this study is to find out the effects of the conflicts on the professionalization of both groups,
Methods : This study was conducted through the methods of document analysis.
Results :Korean Oriental medicine doctors have awakened to their occupational identity in the process of their conflicts with pharmacists. The doctors should have developed their own logic on the social role of Korean Oriental medicine doctors and on the characteristics, the occupational areas, and the direction of development of Korean Oriental Medicine.
Conclusions : In the process of the conflicts, the Korean government and civil organizations have intervened to resolve the conflicts. And the Korean government has used a coercive measure. The intervention of the government and civil organizations has resulted in the loss of the credibility and prestige of both professions. But in terms of professionalization, the conflicts have awakened to their occupational identity and enhanced the inner integration of both group, therefore, they have become to have a character of professional group.
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