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A Study on the Classification Scheme Used to Compile Dongui Bogam

  • Journal of Studies in Bibliography
  • Abbr : JSB
  • 2019, (79), pp.59~88
  • DOI : 10.17258/jib.2019..79.59
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Bibliography
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 16, 2019
  • Accepted : September 17, 2019
  • Published : September 30, 2019

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1청주대학교 대학원 문헌정보학과

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ABSTRACT

This research analyzes how Heo Joon used the classification scheme of subject classes and subclasses to compile Dongui Bogam from a bibliographical viewpoint. Major findings are as follows: 1) It is confirmed that in compiling the content of Dongui Bogam, Heo Joon’s major principle was to give body a priority over diseases, and to classify the content into five classes, that is, internal medicine, exterior parts, various diseases, and decocted medicine. 2) In Dongui Bogam, in the classes of ‘internal medicine, exterior parts, and various diseases’ 11 core subclasses are properly framed in each class, and a group of supplementary subclasses are logically and sequentially placed around core subclasses to establish its classification scheme. 3) In the class of ‘decocted medicine’, all kinds of medicinal raw materials are classified into ‘15 subclasses’ in order of the four groups of ‘a source of life, animals, plants, and minerals’, and these 4 groups are sequentially placed after the first subclass, that is, ‘① the sequence of decocted medicine’ to establish its classification scheme for the entire 16 subclasses. In this research, it is evidenced that the classification scheme used to compile Dongui Bogam, was very creatively and logically structured to establish the five classes and their 16 subclasses, respectively.

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