한국인의 몸을 통해 본 동·서의학

Abstract

The body has been an intense focus of attention since the 1990s both in academic and mundane discourse　 In philosophy　 literature critique　 sociology and anthropology the body has been found to have various implications and auras around it　 I try to explain the body as the subject of medicine rather philosophically　 in terms of nature　 culture and phenomena　 And then I look into the Korean body of the late 19th century when western biomedicine was first introduced　 The Korean body was encountering traditional and modern biomedical medicines in three different spaces i　e　　 corporal　 social and moral　 The corporal space was the space into which direct intervention such as surgery was performed　 The body was also situated in the social space where imperative social measures such as sanitation and sterilization was imposed　 The body also had the moral space　 invasion into which evoked great moral upheaval　 It was when the government ordered the public to cut the long and bound hair　 which had long been the symbol of their identity　 Reflecting upon the philosophical perspectives and examining concrete cases of the encounters of the body with the two medical systems　 I argue that we should have new perspective that embodies the historical and phenomenological experience of the body