The purpose of this paper is to analyze the process of establishing a quarantine system based on medical inspection by Shanghai Customs. England was the first to introduce a quarantine system based on medical inspection during the nineteenth century; with the majority of the Sha...
This paper examines the social life of masks in colonial Korea with a focus on their use in hygienic practices. It argues that masks first appeared in the disease control scene in late 1919 when the Governor-General of Korea belatedly introduced preventative measures against the...
This article examines the technological competition between laparoscopic sterilization and mini-laparotomy from the 1960s to the 1980s in South Korea and analyzes the motives of obstetricians and gynecologists for participating in the Family Planning Program. Obstetricians and g...
