Hoi-eun Kim: “Disaggregating ‘Japanese’ Doctors in Colonial Korea: A Preliminary Prosopographical Analysis”
Join Hoi-eun Kim on February 20, 2019, as he discusses the role of Japanese medical doctors in a time of colonial micro-management in Korea from 1910-1945. Glasscock room 311.
February 20, 2019, 9-10 a.m.
311 Glasscock Building
Hoi-eun Kim| Associate Professor, Department of History
“Disaggregating ‘Japanese’ Doctors in Colonial Korea: A Preliminary Prosopographical Analysis”
Japan’s colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 is often characterized by its fine-toothed organization of colonial bureaucrats that regulated every aspect of the lives of its twenty million colonial subjects. The role of Japanese medical doctors is also understood in this light of colonial micro-management. What is problematic though is that this broad depiction of Japanese doctors as quintessential instruments of colonial biopolitics is made only with a study of a handful of exemplary cases that can be conveniently pigeonholed into a stereotypical image of colonial medicine and its practitioners. In this project, Kim analyzes prosopographical features of Japanese doctors as a whole, with a view to significantly advancing our understanding of the nature of medical science in the development and management of Japan’s most significant colony.