Colonial Research on Public Hygiene and its Postcolonial Legacy: Focusing on Hygiene Laboratory in Colonial Korea.

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES
Ji-Young Park
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Previous studies on the history of Korean public health have shown that the public hygiene system in Korea under Japan's colonial rule relied heavily on the sanitary police, whose lack of expertise in hygiene reinforced the coercion and violence of the colonial public hygiene system. This view, however, has overlooked the existence and function of scientific knowledge, which underpinned the formulation and implementation of public hygiene policies. This paper explores the knowledge production in public hygiene by research institutes of Japan's colonial government in Korea, drawing on the Hygiene Laboratory as a case. The Hygiene Laboratory chiefly played three roles: first, providing advice on the sanitary police's crackdowns; second, quality inspection of food, beverage, and pharmaceuticals, and authorizing their production and distribution; third, investigating health resources such as conventional food ingredients, medicinal herbs, and drinking water to support the wartime public health policy of the colonial government in Korea. The third function in particular continued after the reorganization of the Hygiene Laboratory as the National Chemistry Laboratory in the postcolonial period. By tracing the Hygiene Laboratory's research activities, this paper highlights the complicated cooperation between expertise, practices, and institutions in the field of sanitation control in colonial Korea.

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公共卫生的殖民研究及其后殖民遗产:以殖民时期韩国的卫生实验室为重点。
以往对韩国公共卫生史的研究表明,日本殖民统治下的韩国公共卫生系统严重依赖卫生警察,而卫生警察缺乏卫生专业知识,加剧了殖民地公共卫生系统的胁迫和暴力。然而,这种观点忽视了科学知识的存在和作用,科学知识是制定和实施公共卫生政策的基础。本文以韩国卫生实验室为例,探讨了日本殖民地政府研究机构在公共卫生方面的知识生产。卫生实验室主要扮演三个角色:第一,为卫生警察的打击行动提供建议;二是食品、饮料、药品的质量检验和生产经营许可;第三,调查传统食品原料、药材和饮用水等卫生资源,以支持朝鲜殖民政府的战时公共卫生政策。在后殖民时期,卫生实验室改组为国家化学实验室后,第三项职能继续发挥。通过追踪卫生实验室的研究活动,本文强调了殖民地韩国卫生控制领域的专业知识、实践和机构之间的复杂合作。
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