Colonial Research on Public Hygiene and its Postcolonial Legacy: Focusing on Hygiene Laboratory in Colonial Korea

Previous studies on the history of Korean public health have shown that the public hygiene system in Korea under Japan’s colonial rule relied heavily on the sanitary police, whose lack of expertise in hygiene reinforced the coercion and violence of the colonial public hygiene system. This view, howe...

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Main Author: Ji-young PARK
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2022-08-01
Series:Uisahak
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Online Access:http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-31-2-429.pdf