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Reconstructing Bodies : Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945 /
South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medica...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction. Medicine as a form of "ordinary shopping"
- 1. Medicine and its fragments, 1945-1948
- 2. Mobilizing new models of public health and medicine, 1945-1948
- 3. "From Minneapolis to Seoul": transforming surgery, clinical practice, and professional identity at Seoul national university hospital, 1954-1968
- 4. Family planning and nation building in south Korea, 1961 through the mid-1970s
- 5. Taking samples for the nation: Historicizing the biological sample in the south Korean antiparasite campaigns, 1969-1995
- 6. Reconstructing the face: "Asian blepharoplasty," professional expertise, and the development of a plastic surgery market, 1954 to the present
- Conclusion: challenging developmental expectations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index