근대 희곡에 나타난 제국의 조선 의사들

Abstract

A doctor with the knowledge of western medicine in the modern times earned trust and respect from the public. The doctors at that time were pioneers who spread the fruits of the western civilization to the people in Chosun and made it possible for the people to experience new technologies. This type of characters who symbolize the modernization comes often into the story in modern play. This study is literary work and effort to examine the times of Chosun sailing from a colonial reality to a strangely new space and time through a figure of a doctor who appeared in the modern play. Westerners who have introduced the modern science and technology that was known as Western medicine were able to win the hegemony of the Chosun medical community by shoving away the Korean Medicine Doctors who, with the aid of the empire, have treated the Korean patients to the frontier. In the second chapter of this volume, we investigated these changes through the collection of modern plays. This chapter analyzed the behavior of doctors whose response to the Japanese Empire, after having been benefited from the Empire, was made very quickly. They, in presence of facing the patients from Chosun and the Japanese Empire, looked away the pain and suffering of the patients from Chosun. Chapter 3 paid close attention to the doctors who treated the patients from Chosun and to those who refused to treat by giving a variety of reasons. The doctors who belong to the latter case were all from Chosun and they focused only on the Japanese empire and money that guaranteed their stable lives, just as the doctors who neglected their patients mentioned in chapter 2. However, in chapter 4, it has been found that they became patients and they became factors that have bad effects on modern era. To sum up, the doctors appearing in the plays of 1910s to 1930s are depicted as people who are entirely focused in treating patients in the one hand, while as detestable beings desiring others' property and deteriorating modern Chosun society along with the empire in the other hand. Though doctors grew by receiving benefits from the empire, along the process, they closed their eyes from the lives of average people of Chosun - they were just becoming like the empire. the doctors who chased money and the empire were negativities that appeared during the modern era, which degenerated Chosun society.