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@article{ART002996447},
author={Kiebok Yi},
title={Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2023},
volume={80},
number={3},
pages={215-253},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kiebok Yi
TI - Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2023
VL - 80
IS - 3
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 215
EP - 253
SN - 1598-3021
AB - The aim of this study is to explore the complex and multifaceted history of Korean and East Asian medicine by analyzing the evolution of medical narratives and cognitive practices surrounding the medical body during the Joseon (朝鮮) Dynasty (1392-1910) from a gender perspective. Rather than adopting modernist, orientalist, or West-based feminist approaches that view medicine as an autonomous field or reduce East Asian women to passive victims, this research methodology provides a critical reinterpretation of sex- and gender-related medical narratives. Using the medical body as a probing lens, this study examines the features of the narrative and its historical context to explore how medical principles and cognitive practices related to sex and gender differences have evolved over time. Significantly, these medical discourses and issues were rooted in the question of what constitutes or informs a medically healthy and ideal body. The medical bodies under scrutiny can be classified into five categories: the body of cosmogony, the body of reproduction, the body of life nourishment, the body of affectivity, and the body of individual agency. The historical transformation of these medical bodies offers a fascinating glimpse into the diverse and dynamic terrain of the history of Korean and East Asian medicine at large. This research will contribute to a deeper understanding of the nuanced and contextualized view of the history of the body, gender, practice in East Asian medicine, as well as highlight the ongoing relevance of these traditions in the contemporary world.
KW - History of Korean Medicine;Joseon;Medical Body;Gender;Gendered Body;Gender-Specific Medicine;DonguiSuseBowon
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215
ER -

Kiebok Yi. (2023). Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 80(3), 215-253.

Kiebok Yi. 2023, "Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.80, no.3 pp.215-253. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215

Kiebok Yi "Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 80.3 pp.215-253 (2023) : 215.

Kiebok Yi. Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea. 2023; 80(3), 215-253. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215

Kiebok Yi. "Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 80, no.3 (2023) : 215-253.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215

Kiebok Yi. Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 80(3), 215-253. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215

Kiebok Yi. Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2023; 80(3) 215-253. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215

Kiebok Yi. Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea. 2023; 80(3), 215-253. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215

Kiebok Yi. "Revisiting the Gendered Body of East Asian Medicine: An Examination of Medical Narratives and Cognitive Practices in Joseon Korea" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 80, no.3 (2023) : 215-253.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.215