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KMID : 1234820170180010265
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Korean Society of Law and Medicine
2017 Volume.18 No. 1 p.265 ~ p.295
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The legal status of the breast in assessing physical disability
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Kim Bong-Kyum
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Abstract
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Breast tissue is composed of skin, mammary gland(including lactiferous duct), subcutaneous fat layer. The anatomical position is on the anterior chest wall(the outside of the chest cavity) but not on the inside of the thorax. Therefore, when the internal organs in the thoracic cavity are defined and expressed as ‘organs’ and the internal organs of each are labeled for a long time, for the breast located outside the thoracic cavity, it is thought that there is considerable difficulty in defining and recognizing the breast tissue as organs. For this reason, it is necessary to discourage the controversy over whether or not the breast is contained in the chest(or intra-thoracic cavity). In order to completely exclude it, it is assumed that the “chest-abdomen” can be called the “intra-thoraxic or intra-abdominal.” But it is difficult to change the terms in various laws and regulations, I think that it would be necessary to insert only the clue clause “Breasts are excluded” in the detailed criteria for grading. In order to include it, it is necessary to change the terms of the ordinance or to say that the breast is exceptionally included.
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KEYWORD
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Breast, Mammary gland, Organ, Chest, Abdomen, Intra-thoracic, Intra-abdominal, Impairment, Disability
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