Yi Ggod-Me
* Department of Nursing. Sangji University College of Health Sciences.
Uisahak. 2006 Dec;15(2):227-36.
During Colonial Period, Western Medicine was introduced, and due to the lean-to-one-side policy by the Japanese, Western Medicine became the mainstream medical science while Oriental Medicine was pushed to the outskirts. The general public in colonial period got help from medical profession after they tried something they could do at home when they got sick or injured. There were differences to get help from western or traditional medicine according to their economic status, living area, and educational status, the character of disease or injury, etc. In general, public made more use of traditional medicine than western medicine. Although the traditional medicine had better regional and economic approach, there was another important factor that made the general public prefer traditional medicine to western medicine. The general public had strong belief in the treatment of traditional medicine. There was no strong belief that western medicine was better in scientific ground and modern than oriental medicine. In spite of their general preference for traditional medicine, the general public had some conflict in everyday choice on medicine. The belief of relatives, personal experience, economic status, the character of the disease made the conflict possible. Sometime the general public chose both traditional and western medicine altogether.
在殖民时期，西医被引入，由于日本的片面政策，西医成为主流医学，而传统医学被排挤到边缘。殖民时期的普通民众在生病或受伤后，先尝试了家里能做的事情，之后才向医疗行业求助。根据经济状况、居住地区、教育程度、疾病或损伤的性质等，在寻求西医或传统医学帮助方面存在差异。总体而言，民众更多地使用传统医学而非西医。尽管传统医学在地域和经济适用性方面表现更佳，但还有另一个重要因素使得普通民众更倾向于传统医学而非西医，即民众对传统医学的治疗效果深信不疑。他们并不坚信西医在科学依据和现代性方面比传统医学更胜一筹。尽管民众总体上更倾向于传统医学，但在日常用药选择上仍存在一些冲突。亲属的看法、个人经历、经济状况、疾病性质等因素导致了这些冲突的产生。有时民众会同时选择传统医学和西医。
