Kim, Sonja Myung (Author)
***** This dissertation examines new medical interventions in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Korea, primarily through the site of reproduction--the conceiving, gestating, birthing, and rearing of infants. Of particular focus are new knowledge and practices in the fields of obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, and sanitary sciences; state and private reforms in medical services and education; infant health and welfare projects; birth control and eugenics; and Japanese imperial pro-natalist policies. As the bodies of birthing mothers and infants became invested with new political and social significance, they were contested in multiple ways in their definition, treatment, and reform over the nature of community. Shifts in medicine produced new meanings of womanhood defined by women's biological and social functions as mothers, gendering consumption of hygienic notions and practices, and solidifying concerns of women's health as they related to the protection of women's fertility. A negotiated process, these shifts were enabled by diverse reformers who sought biomedical solutions to what were perceived as social, imperial, or national crises. They were also mediated by Korean traditions and practices, as well as the agenda and concerns of reformers within the Japanese imperial context. The results were both oppressive and liberatory. The various government, reformist, and missionary initiatives to re-define, re- conceptualize, and re-organize notions and practices of the body and medicine in relation to reproduction engendered new forms of subjectivities, witnessed changes to the provision of medical services, opened a pharmaceutical market, offered new modes in understanding disease, intensified forms of disciplining the body, and produced new groups of professionals who play important roles in post-1945 governments. The medicalization of childbirth and childrearing, acute focus on infertility and 'women's disease,' patriarchal nature of birth control, and acceptance of control over reproduction for communal goals of this period signal what was to come post-1960 with the family planning programs of Park Chung-hee's regime. ***** References ***** * References (259) *****
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