The Penetration of ‘Sanitary Discipline’ in Colonial Local Society: Hygiene and Medical Care Problem in the Honam Plain in Korea

This paper intends to examine the realities of modern hygiene and medical institutions making their appearance in the rural Honam Plain (often called the “rice basket”) of colonial Korea in terms of organizing local units and spreading colonial ‘sanitary discipline’ throughout the region. In the Hon...

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Main Authors: Takenori MATSUMOTO, Seung Jin CHUNG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2018-12-01
Series:Uisahak
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Online Access:http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-27-3-357.pdf