Article ID: CBB792869780

Blood Purity and Scientific Independence: Blood Science and Postcolonial Struggles in Korea, 1926–1975 (2019)

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After World War II, blood groups became a symbol of anti-racial science. This paper aims to shed new light on the post-WWII history of blood groups and race, illuminating the postcolonial revitalization of racial serology in South Korea. In the prewar period, Japanese serologists developed a serological anthropology of Koreans in tandem with Japanese colonialism. The pioneering Korean hematologist Yi Samyŏl (1926–2015), inspired by decolonization movements during the 1960s, excavated and appropriated colonial serological anthropology to prove Koreans as biologically independent from the Japanese. However, his racial serology of Koreans shared colonial racism with Japanese anthropology, despite his anti-colonial nationalism.

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Authors & Contributors
Bangham, Jenny
Axel, Brian Keith
Blanchard, Pascal
Bray, Francesca
Geissler, P. Wenzel
Hahn, Barbara
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
History and Technology
Intellectual History Review
Publishers
Duke University Press
Armando
Liverpool University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Routledge
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Colonialism
Postcolonialism
Science and race
Public health
Anthropology
Medicine and society
People
Pufendorf, Samuel von
Schatzberg, Eric M.
Vrolik, Gerard
Vrolik, Willem
Choe Ung-sok
Vattel, Emer de
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Enlightenment
Places
Japan
Africa
Asia
Great Britain
Korea
China
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
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