Article ID: CBB001214038

The Role of Pavlov's Theory in North Korea in the Late 1950s: Ideological Struggle in Medicine and Scientification of Traditional Medicine (2013)

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Han, Sun-Hee (Author)
Kim, Ock-Joo Cho (Author)


Korean Journal of Medical History
Volume: 22, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 801-846


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Korean.
Language: Korean

This paper deals with Pavlov theory in North Korea in the late 1950s, focusing on its role in ideological struggle in medicine and in reinterpretation of traditional medicine. In North Korean Ministry of Health found Pavlov theory to have rich resources which could be used in the construction of the North Korea's socialist medicine. First of all, Pavlov theory provided the North Korean Communist Party with a powerful ideological weapon against capitalist medical thoughts, representing superior socialist medicine based upon Marx-Leninism and dialectical materialism. This paper examines the contents of Pavlov theory introduced in the North Korea from the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. Pavlov theory in the North Korea was not merely a political slogan but a unified medical system of thought, ranging from biological theory on the organism and pathogenesis to clinical theory. Nonetheless, Pavlov theory became Pavlov doctrine in the ideological struggle in healthcare field initiated by Kim Il Sung and the Communist Party. In the process of the ideological struggle, the abducted surgeon Kim Si-Chang was accused and purged of counter-revolutionary and refusal to conform to Pavlov doctrines by the Communist Party in 1959. Interestingly, Pavlov theory was used in reinterpretation of Traditional Medicine in North Korea from unscientific practice to a rich and scientific complementary medicine by connecting the two with common theoretical components such as Pavlov's typology. By the enthusiastic Communist Party members, Pavlov doctrine was introduced, transformed and exploited to build monolithic ideology system in medicine in North Korea in the late 1950s.

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Authors & Contributors
Zur, Dafna
Zhan, Mei
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit
Wilcox, Hui Niu
Thompson, C. Michele
Sungyong, Kang
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine, traditional
Medicine
Transmission of ideas
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Medicine and religion
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
China
United States
Vietnam
Tibet
North Korea
Atlantic Ocean
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