A symposium on the history of medicine in Korea

A symposium on the history of medicine in KoreaThe seminar brought three scholars of the history of medicine in Korea to UBC to join with a scholar of Korean medicine in the UBC Department of Asian Studies to introduce faculty and students at UBC to the latest developments in the study of disease and medicine in Korean history. The four ranged from an analysis of the infectious diseases of ancient Korea to a discussion of the return of malaria in recent times. The speakers also explored the traditional medicine of Korea, with one talk on Korea’s greatest encyclopedia of traditional medicine, the Dongui Bogam, and another on the modernization of traditional medicine in recent decades. The scholars from Korea, two from Yonsei University and one from Kyonghee University, are members of a research team working with a grant from the Korean government to trace the history of illness and healing in Korea from the earliest times to the present day.

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