Son A H
Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Soc Sci Med. 1999 Aug;49(4):543-50. doi: 10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00151-3.
This article explores the modernization of traditional Korean medicine in an attempt to answer why Korea has a dual system of professionalized care, and argues that the dual system has been shaped by conflicts between herbal doctors and Western-trained doctors throughout the various stages of historical development. I do not attempt comparisons with other countries, but social scientists have created a large body of work on the interaction between Western and Asian medical traditions in India, China, Japan, and other countries. Korea has been absent from this research. The present essay should draw attention to its sociological relevance.
本文探讨了韩医学的现代化，试图回答韩国为何拥有职业化医疗的双重体系，并认为这一双重体系是在历史发展的各个阶段中，草药医生与接受西式培训的医生之间的冲突所形成的。我并不尝试与其他国家进行比较，但社会科学家已经就印度、中国、日本和其他国家中西医学传统之间的相互作用开展了大量研究。韩国一直未被纳入这项研究之中。本文应能引起人们对其社会学意义的关注。
