The Desire for Advanced Technology and the Reversal of Appropriateness: the Technological Competition between Laparoscopic Sterilization and Mini-laparotomy in 1960-80s South Korea.

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES
Seungmann Park
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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 gynecologists were key actors in implementing the Program in the front line, but there is not enough research on why they became involved in the Program. Preceding studies describe the doctors as those who internalized historicism combined with population problems and devoted themselves to the cause of the state. However, it is difficult to find concerns about the nation's future in the oral statements or memoirs of those who participated in the Program. This research focuses on the fact that laparoscopic sterilization, a complex and expensive technology, proliferated, rather than simple and inexpensive mini-laparotomy in South Korea, a low-income country where the Family Planning Program was implemented. This study also argues that behind this reversal of appropriateness lay the desire for advanced technology of elite obstetricians and gynecologists that cannot be reduced to the cause of the state.

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对先进技术的渴望和对适当性的逆转:1960-80年代韩国腹腔镜绝育和微创剖腹手术的技术竞争。
本文考察了20世纪60年代至80年代韩国腹腔镜绝育和小型剖腹手术之间的技术竞争,并分析了妇产科医生参与计划生育计划的动机。产科医生和妇科医生是在前线实施该计划的关键参与者,但对他们参与该计划的原因没有足够的研究。先前的研究将医生描述为那些将历史决定论与人口问题结合起来并致力于国家事业的人。然而,在参与该计划的人的口头陈述或回忆录中,很难找到对国家未来的担忧。这项研究的重点是腹腔镜绝育这一复杂而昂贵的技术在韩国激增,而不是在实施计划生育计划的低收入国家进行简单而廉价的小型剖腹手术。这项研究还认为,在这种适当性的逆转背后,是精英妇产科医生对先进技术的渴望,而这不能归结为国家的原因。
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