Kim Ock Joo
Department of Medical History and Medical Humanities, College of Medicine Seoul National University, Seoul 110-799, Korea.
Uisahak. 2010 Jun 30;19(1):89-117.
Studies on the history of Western medicine in Korea began to be actively conducted and published since the restart of the Korean Society for the History of Medicine in 1991, which had been originally inaugurated in 1947, and the publication of its official journal, the Korean Journal of Medical History in 1992. In 1970s and 1980s, even before the start of the Journal, articles on a history of Western medicine were published mainly written by physicians in medical journals. This paper aims to provide an overview of the publications on the history of Western medicine in Korea, comparing papers published in the Journal with those published in other journals. Authors of the papers in the Journal are those who majored in history of medicine or history science whose initial educational backgrounds were medicine or science, whereas authors of the papers in other journals majored in Western history, economic history, social history, religious history, or women's history. While a large portion of papers in the Journal deal with medicine in ancient Greek or in modern America with no paper on medieval medicine, the papers in other journals deal with more various periods including ancient, medieval and modern periods and with diverse areas including France, Britain, Germany, Europe etc. Recent trends in 2000s show an increase in the number of researchers who published the history of Western medicine in other journals, total number of their publications, and the topics that they dealt with in their papers. In contrast, however, the number of researchers published in the Journal, the number of the papers and its topics - all decreased in recent years. Only three papers on the history of diseases have been published in the Journal, while eleven published in other journals. In order to stimulate research on the history of Western medicine in Korea, concerted efforts are necessary including academic communication among various disciplines, formulation of a long term plan to enlarge the pool of researchers and readers of the history of Western medicine, and development of strategic educational programs for both graduates and undergraduates including students of medicine and of humanities in Korea.
自1991年韩国医学史学会重新启动(该学会最初于1947年成立)以及1992年其官方期刊《韩国医学史杂志》出版以来,关于韩国西医史的研究开始积极开展并发表。在20世纪70年代和80年代,甚至在该杂志创刊之前,关于西医史的文章就主要由医生发表在医学期刊上。本文旨在概述韩国关于西医史的出版物,将该杂志上发表的论文与其他期刊上发表的论文进行比较。该杂志上论文的作者是医学史或历史科学专业的人,他们最初的教育背景是医学或科学,而其他期刊上论文的作者则主修西方历史、经济史、社会史、宗教史或女性史。该杂志上的大部分论文涉及古希腊或现代美国的医学,没有关于中世纪医学的论文,而其他期刊上的论文涉及更多不同时期,包括古代、中世纪和现代,以及不同地区,包括法国、英国、德国、欧洲等。21世纪的最新趋势表明,在其他期刊上发表西医史的研究人员数量、他们的出版物总数以及他们论文中涉及的主题都有所增加。然而,相比之下,在该杂志上发表论文的研究人员数量、论文数量及其主题近年来都有所减少。该杂志上只发表了三篇关于疾病史方面的论文,而其他期刊上发表了十一篇。为促进韩国西医史研究,需要共同努力,包括各学科之间的学术交流、制定长期计划以扩大西医史研究人员和读者群体、为韩国的医学和人文专业的本科生和研究生制定战略教育计划。
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