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@article{ART001879166},
author={Inkyung Lee},
title={A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories},
journal={Journal of Korean Literature},
issn={1598-2076},
year={2014},
number={29},
pages={249-285}

TY - JOUR
AU - Inkyung Lee
TI - A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories
JO - Journal of Korean Literature
PY - 2014
VL - null
IS - 29
PB - The Society Of Korean Literature
SP - 249
EP - 285
SN - 1598-2076
AB - This paper analyzed the various descriptive perspectives and insatiable desires of doctors, depicted in the old Korean Remedy Stories which are transmitted orally or included in books. As a result, I found that the storytellers were in awe of excellent doctors who had cured the patients' incurable diseases, and they had strong desires of contacting the excellent doctors and curing their own diseases, as well. In the old Korean Remedy Stories included in books, the narrators usually shows their jealousy of the doctors who had become successful in spite of difficult childhoods or poor financial situations resulted from their lowly status. Meanwhile, in the old Korean Remedy Stories transmitted orally, I found the patients' worries about the medical expenses or doctor's fee which they should pay. And, the stories, both transmitted orally and included in books, did show not only the doctors' having sense of inferiority and unstable ego-identity result from their low social status, but also their professional sense of duty and crisis as a doctor. Which presented through the various view points of the storytellers who had described the doctors' inward consciousness in the stories. Meanwhile, I found, in the stories, the inconsistent and improper ideas of the doctors that reflected the patients' selfish greed. The stories purported that doctors must have such professional sense of duty that they willingly take the sacrifice of giving up their own lives for saving the patient's life. Besides, the storytellers purported that the good doctors should properly give their medical services free for the patients, even though they used to look down on the doctors because of their low social rank. In conclusion, I found the old Korean Remedy Stories showed the self-contradictory and selfish desires for doctors such that the patients and storytellers want the doctors' medical services free, at the same time, they would despise the doctors because of low social rank.
KW - old Korean Remedy Stories(치병설화);doctor;descriptive perspective;folktale;storyteller
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Inkyung Lee. (2014). A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories. Journal of Korean Literature, 29, 249-285.

Inkyung Lee. 2014, "A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories", Journal of Korean Literature, no.29, pp.249-285.

Inkyung Lee "A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories" Journal of Korean Literature 29 pp.249-285 (2014) : 249.

Inkyung Lee. A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories. 2014; 29 : 249-285.

Inkyung Lee. "A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories" Journal of Korean Literature no.29(2014) : 249-285.

Inkyung Lee. A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories. Journal of Korean Literature, 29, 249-285.

Inkyung Lee. A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories. Journal of Korean Literature. 2014; 29 249-285.

Inkyung Lee. A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories. 2014; 29 : 249-285.

Inkyung Lee. "A Study on the various views of doctors depicted in old Korean Remedy Stories" Journal of Korean Literature no.29(2014) : 249-285.