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@article{ART001225007},
author={Bak Gyung Yong},
title={Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2008},
number={41},
pages={237-270}

TY - JOUR
AU - Bak Gyung Yong
TI - Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2008
VL - null
IS - 41
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 237
EP - 270
SN - 1598-8457
AB - The aim of this article is to investigate medical practices and its cultural meanings of the elder doctors of oriental medicine(元老 韓醫師). For this, I have applied to a few anthropological fieldwork methods at thirteen herb clinics(韓醫 院), deep-interviews and observations, collections of private documents and everyday lives' things, photographs etcs.. Medical practices of the elder doctors of oriental medicine comprise illness diagnoses, writing prescriptions and preparing Hanyak(韓藥) according to it and medical care actions(ChimㆍDumㆍBuhwang). These medical practices contain many cultural aspects of 'doctors-patients' relations, embodiments of the basic principles in oriental medicine, social verifications of remedy effects and its dilemmas for scientific tests, productions of new experimental recipe knowledge (秘方) and utilizations, successions and changes of ‘tradition' etcs.. The basic principle of Umyangohhaeng(陰陽五行) have been passed through all medical practices of the elder doctors of oriental medicine. The point of it is focused on maintenances for harmony and balance of Umyang(陰陽) in bio-situation through medical care actions. The elder doctors of oriental medicine have cared many patients and accumulated new experimental recipe knowledge by their clinic experiences, but there have been dilemmas for scientific tests. Though various apparatuses for diagnosis and remedy have been enlarged at many herb clinics, the elder doctors of oriental medicine adhere traditional methods in almost medical practices. The integral and detailed diagnosis(執症), including four methods of seeing(望)ㆍquestioning(問)ㆍhearing(聞)ㆍtouching (切), is based on feeling and reaction(感應) through five sense organs. Their almost medical care actions have been practiced according to traditional ways and category also, not using medical machines. In resent situation of radical changes in medical circumstances, it is worthwhile we pay attention to their medical practices for preservation and transmission of 'cultural tradition' in oriental medicine.
KW - traditional medicine;doctor of oriental medicine;oriental medicine;medical practices;cultural meanings;Umyangohhaeng(陰陽五行);feeling and reaction;integral and detailed diagnosis;four diagnosis methods;'tradition' in oriental medicine
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Bak Gyung Yong. (2008). Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine. Journal of Humanities, 41, 237-270.

Bak Gyung Yong. 2008, "Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine", Journal of Humanities, no.41, pp.237-270.

Bak Gyung Yong "Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine" Journal of Humanities 41 pp.237-270 (2008) : 237.

Bak Gyung Yong. Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine. 2008; 41 : 237-270.

Bak Gyung Yong. "Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine" Journal of Humanities no.41(2008) : 237-270.

Bak Gyung Yong. Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine. Journal of Humanities, 41, 237-270.

Bak Gyung Yong. Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine. Journal of Humanities. 2008; 41 237-270.

Bak Gyung Yong. Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine. 2008; 41 : 237-270.

Bak Gyung Yong. "Medical Practices and its Cultural Meanings of The Elder Doctors of Oriental Medicine" Journal of Humanities no.41(2008) : 237-270.