Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea by Kim, Sonja M.

Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea

In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the...
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Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea by Kim, Sonja M.

Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea

¥9,525

Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea

¥9,525
Author: Sonja M. Kim
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the new nation's reproductive health and women's responsibility for care work to produce novel organization of services in hospitals and practices in the home. The first monograph on this topic, Imperatives of Care places women and gender at the center of modern medical transformations in Korea. It outlines the professionalization of medicine, nursing, and midwifery, tracing their evolution from new legal and institutional infrastructures in public health and education, and investigates women's experiences as health practitioners and patients, medical activities directed at women's bodies, and the related knowledge and goods produced for and consumed by women. Sonja M. Kim draws on archival sources, some not previously explored, to foreground the ways individual women met challenges posed by uneven developments in medicine, intervened in practices aimed at them, andseized the evolving options that became available to promote their personal, familial, and professional interests. She demonstrates how medicine produced, and in turn was produced by, gendered expectations caught between the Korean reformist agenda, the American Protestant missionary enterprise, and Japanese imperialism.

Author: Sonja M. Kim
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 07/31/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780824888404

About the Author
Sonja M. Kim is associate professor of Asian and Asian American studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton.


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