Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea 9780824855482

In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privilege

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Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea
 9780824855482

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Sanitizing Women and the Domestic Sciences
CHAPTER 2. From the Ŭinyŏ to the Yŏ’ŭi: Te Female Physician
CHAPTER 3. Te Heavenly Task of Nursing
CHAPTER 4. Negotiating Gynecology: Constant Imperatives, Evolving Options
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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