조선후기 疫病에 대한 정부의 대응 - 正祖 시기의 특징을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The epidemic outbreak in the modern society is a big social problem. It was the same in the premodern society. And always it got attention that how the government responsed at the national disasters. Especially in the late Joseon the population increased greatly and the urban growth like as Seoul accelerated. At this time, the Joseon government was sensitive to the yeogbyeong(疫病, epidemic disease) because it could threaten population scale. Based on these concerns, in this paper I researched that how the government responsed at the national disasters like as yeogbyeong in the late Joseon. For this, I divided and organized the government responses as in the enforcement of rite, medical relief and the enforcement of hyupjeon(恤典). And the king who set an example in epidemic treatment and relief was Jeongjo. To overcome the yeogbyeong, he wrote prayers for the rite. He compiled the 『Suminmyojeon(壽民妙詮)』, which was the only medical book that the king of the Joseon compiled. And he wanted to build up the Emergency Care System by the publication of the 『Jinyeokguryojeolmok(疹疫捄療節目)』. Also he published the 『Jahyuljeonchik(字恤典則)』, which was compiled for the relief of abandoned children in the period of yeogbyeong and bad year. It covered specifically all contents for relief, so we can make an assessment that it was very advanced law which was enacted in the 18th century.