The Journal of Korean Medical History (한국의사학회지)

Korean Society of the Medical History (한국의사학회)
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Medical Texts as the Health Care System in the Joseon Dynasty :An Anthropological View on the Meaning of Medical-Text Publication

의료체계로서의 조선 의서: 인류학적 시선으로 읽는 의서 발간의 의미

  • Kim, Taewoo (Dept. of Medical History, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung-Hee University)
  • 김태우 (경희대학교 한의과대학 의사학교실)
  • Received : 2014.11.11
  • Accepted : 2014.11.22
  • Published : 2015.05.31
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Abstract

This study examines the meaning of medical-text publication in the Joseon Dynasty by applying anthropological notions of "health care system" and "popular health care sector" to the social and political contexts of the pre-modern state. The present study focuses on the social network of senders and receivers in which medical knowledge is communicated and shared. Exploring the multi-layered structure of the network among the state, the author-practitioners, and populace, this study argues that the network of knowledge sharing system by publication of medical texts itself is a core structure in the health care system of the Joseon Dynasty. This pre-modern health care system aimed to vitalize and reinforce the "popular health care sector" by sharing medical knowledge with populace through the book-publication system. Foucault's notion of "biopolitics" provides a comparative window between the modern health care system and the health care system of the Joseon period, articulating the particularity of the pre-modern health care system.

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