한말 의료 체계의 전환과 제중원-세브란스

Abstract

The end of Chosun was a period in which our concept of medicine and its cultural form was reorganized into a modern Western system from the traditional one. This massive changeover was conducted by mainly three actors- the Chosun government, Protestant missionaries, and the Japanese. From 1876 to the Protectorate Treaty of 1905, the three main actors introduced modern Western medical system to the Chosun society for different reasons. But with the signing of the Protectorate Treaty in November 1905, the situation changes completely. With the Japanese Residency-General of Korea found as a result of the Protectorate Treaty, all efforts by the Chosun government to build a independent modern health system were stopped. Japan’s colonial government-provided medical system and the private medical system of Protestantism would coexist in contrast to each other or in resistance. Between the confrontational two agents, Jaejoongwon-Severance which operated under the principles of Oliver R. Avison to nurture the autonomic growth of Chosun’s medical community under the belief that medical activity equates with missionary work, became the center of Protestant medical activities. It not only provided professional medical service to the Chosun people neglected by the Japanese colonial medical system, but also trained personnels who did not enter Japanese medical school.