The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea
This article examines the technological competition between laparoscopic sterilization and mini-laparotomy from the 1960s to the 1980s in South Korea and analyzes the motives of obstetricians and gynecologists for participating in the Family Planning Program. Obstetricians and gynecologists were key...
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| description | This article examines the technological competition between laparoscopic sterilization and mini-laparotomy from the 1960s to the 1980s in South Korea and analyzes the motives of obstetricians and gynecologists for participating in the Family Planning Program. Obstetricians and gynecologists were key actors in implementing the Program in the front line, but there is not enough research on why they became involved in the Program. Preceding studies describe the doctors as those who internalized historicism combined with population problems and devoted themselves to the cause of the state. However, it is difficult to find concerns about the nation’s future in the oral statements or memoirs of those who participated in the Program. This research focuses on the fact that laparoscopic sterilization, a complex and expensive technology, proliferated, rather than simple and inexpensive mini-laparotomy in South Korea, a low-income country where the Family Planning Program was implemented. This study also argues that behind this reversal of appropriateness lay the desire for advanced technology of elite obstetricians and gynecologists that cannot be reduced to the cause of the state. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-177797624be94e7dbb40391218dfc6f22022-12-22T03:35:13ZengKorean Society for the History of MedicineUisahak1225-505X2093-56092022-04-0131126329610.13081/kjmh.2022.31.2632416The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South KoreaSeungmann PARK0Research Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, the Catholic University of KoreaThis article examines the technological competition between laparoscopic sterilization and mini-laparotomy from the 1960s to the 1980s in South Korea and analyzes the motives of obstetricians and gynecologists for participating in the Family Planning Program. Obstetricians and gynecologists were key actors in implementing the Program in the front line, but there is not enough research on why they became involved in the Program. Preceding studies describe the doctors as those who internalized historicism combined with population problems and devoted themselves to the cause of the state. However, it is difficult to find concerns about the nation’s future in the oral statements or memoirs of those who participated in the Program. This research focuses on the fact that laparoscopic sterilization, a complex and expensive technology, proliferated, rather than simple and inexpensive mini-laparotomy in South Korea, a low-income country where the Family Planning Program was implemented. This study also argues that behind this reversal of appropriateness lay the desire for advanced technology of elite obstetricians and gynecologists that cannot be reduced to the cause of the state.http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-31-1-263.pdflaparoscopymini-laparotomytechnological competitionfamily planning programobstetricsdesire for the advanced technology |
| spellingShingle | Seungmann PARK The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea Uisahak laparoscopy mini-laparotomy technological competition family planning program obstetrics desire for the advanced technology |
| title | The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea |
| title_full | The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea |
| title_fullStr | The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea |
| title_short | The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea |
| title_sort | desire for advanced technology and the reversal of appropriateness the technological competition between laparoscopic sterilization and mini laparotomy in 1960 80s south korea |
| topic | laparoscopy mini-laparotomy technological competition family planning program obstetrics desire for the advanced technology |
| url | http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-31-1-263.pdf |
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