야담을 통해 본 질병과 의원, 그 시선과 의미

Abstract

In East Asia, medicine has been recognized as a way to practice love. Nor did Confucian scholars deny medicine. However, unlike the slogan, 'Love the people and care about the batter', the gaze on the doctor is not good. This paper confirms how the gaze of the disease and doctor of the Joseon Dynasty was through Yadam, and aims to get a glimpse of the expectation horizon of the doctors that the people dreamed of at that time. In the pre-modern times, doctors and shamans were no different. The word "medical[醫]" also depicts a situation in which shaman treated patients with shamanism. At that time, people thought that the cause of the illness was not the incongruity within the body but in the power outside the body, and that the act of breaking the power was not different from the shaman or the doctor. We can confirm it through the Harvard version Pasurok(罷睡錄) describing the cause and the cure of the disease figuratively. After Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592 and the Qing invasion of Joseon in 1636, however, a new question is asked, “Who can heal wounds of non-individual groups?” In Yadam, ‘A man of unusual ability[異人]’ appeared in this question. This is why SeoGeoJung and others have appeared in the Yadam since the 17th century. Prior to the 17th century, doctors were concentrated in Seoul. There were few doctors in the province. That is why doctors exist only in the background of literary works. Doctors appeared in the literature front after the 17th century, because since the commercialization of medicines since the 17th century, a large number of doctors have been cultivated in the provinces. The commercialization of medical care also caused doctors to make profits, and Yadam mocks those. Also, doctors who have shown great medical skills are paying attention. Dr. YuSang, who treated King Sukjong, is one of the most famous figures. While Yadam praised him for medicine, it also suggested that poor people died in the treatment of wages. Put the wage and the life of the people on the same line and ask the readers to judge the choice of Dr. YuSang. Finally, through ChoKwangIl, who had performed medical activities on the side of the people, he emphasized that the life of the poor people should be continued. Money should not be a tool for killing and saving people. Yadam says that is the practice of love.