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Traditional Korean Medical Care and Birth, Aging, Illness, and Death

This course approaches premodern Korean society through the window of medical care.
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Course Introduction

This course approaches premodern Korean society through the window of medical care. To this end, it explores the birth, aging, illness, and death of the Koreans from various aspects such as ideology, medical practitioners, and medical knowledge while focusing on the history of the Korean medical system.

Learning Objectives

Understand how medicine and medical science have influenced Korean society through perception of and response to diseases in premodern Korea. Specifically, acquire knowledge on the history of medical institutions and their functions, various cases of chronic diseases and epidemics, training of medical practitioners and the formation of medical knowledge, the production and development of medicinal Ingredients, and the relationship between medical care policy and ideology.

Course Structure

This course consists of a total of 8 weeks. The lectures in each week are organized into three to six videos by topic.

Subtitles

Korean, English, Chinese

Lee, Kyung-Rok 

 

Kyung-Rok Lee is a professor at the Institute for History of Medicine, Yonsei University. 

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