Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea

by Sonja M Kim and Sonja M. Kim

Book Overview

In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the new nation's reproductive health and women's responsibility for care work to produce novel organization of services in hospitals and practices in the home. The first monograph on this topic, Imperatives of Care places women and gender at the center of modern medical transformations in Korea. It outlines the professionalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824888405
• ISBN13: 9780824888404
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"