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KMID : 0904520150380010247
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Health and Medical Sociology
2015 Volume.38 No. 1 p.247 ~ p.272
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The Social Dynamics in the Development of Medical Professionalization : A case of Korean oriental medical doctors
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Kim Joung-Hwa
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Abstract
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There have been not much studies of how the traditional medical doctors who were thrown out of official medical field since Japanese occupation has been emerged as medical professionals as they are. In fact, there has been conflict over the medical jurisdiction between western and oriental medical doctors since the Independence. While the western medical doctors has tried to maintain monopolistic control over the medicine since the Independence, it was not that much successful due to the fact that the oriental medical doctor were successfully managing the entrance of official medical jurisdiction and expanding their practices. That means western doctors were failing to establish the unified health care system. If so, it might be interesting to ask of how the oriental medical doctors have expanded their jurisdiction over the health care system and become a medical professional. The historical change of occupational works shows some aspects of professional establishment by the oriental medical doctor. Mode of medical practice, perception by the people, historical operation by oriental medical doctors and the change in the contents of medical practice in a broader sense are among those. In other words, the process of the emergence of oriental medical profession might be explained from the perspective of the combined interaction of collective action and surrounding social circumstances. The intention of the paper is to display the process of how the traditional oriental medical occupation is experiencing its transformation into the professional. For the purpose, the jurisdictional conflicts in the areas of institution, public opinion and practice are analyzed since the Independence by utilizing the professional system model.
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KEYWORD
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Oriental Medical Doctor, Medical Professional, Professional System Model, Unified Health Care System, Jurisdiction Conflict
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