Contesting a Medical Gaze: 'The 1888 Baby Riot' in Seoul - Social, Cultural, and Religious Collision.
Cannibalism
Confucian body
Korea
Mission medicine
Rumor
Journal
Journal of religion and health
ISSN: 1573-6571
Titre abrégé: J Relig Health
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 2985199R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
Historique:
accepted:
12
05
2022
pubmed:
7
6
2022
medline:
28
7
2022
entrez:
6
6
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This paper focuses on the encounter and collision of two different cultural systems in the influx of biomedicine and Protestant Christianity during the 1888 'baby riot' in Seoul, Korea. This research scrutinizes the relationship between religion and medicine in modern Korea to illustrate why Korean people contested against the nexus of Protestant Christianity and biomedicine that had been introduced from the West. For them, biomedicine was not simply a way of treating sickness or disease, but a way in which their bodies were examined and manipulated by placing a new gaze on the human body. These disputes developed due to the significant differences between biomedicine and the traditional perspective that was based on the values of Confucian teachings. The Korean people desired to protect the belief that the human body was a locus of virtue and should be preserved without modification, which was considered as a pivotal part of their social identity. Therefore, people who lacked social and political power tried to express their opposition to the medicine and religion from the West by spreading rumors of cannibalism. Through the spread of the rumors, the people interpreted and manifested that Western medicine was cruel, ignorant, immoral and dehumanizing. This paper states that Koreans were not merely passive recipients of biomedicine and Protestant Christianity, but also appropriated the new medical and religious discourses to maintain their dignity and cultural authority against the current of colonization.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35661957
doi: 10.1007/s10943-022-01587-5
pii: 10.1007/s10943-022-01587-5
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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3317-3339Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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