The Gove rning Strate gy and Technologies of the Colonial Powe rs Surrounding Uisaeng(醫生) in the Japanese Colonial Period: With a Focus on Uisaeng’s Selection tests, Education, Evaluation, and Organizaions

This article aims to understand the characteristics of Japanese colonial rule by examining the governing strategy and technologies of colonial power to subsume Uisaeng under the modern medical system during the Japanese colonial period. To that end, this article urg es to recog nize colonial power as disciplinary power, which reproduces ruling orders through strategy and technologies of inhumane and constant surveillance and control instead of personal and violent power. Moreover, this study examines Uisaeng, the oriental medical doctors in charge of low-level administration and medical care in the modern medical system, to investigate how Japanese colonial power used the new disciplinary power to rule their colony. Also, with criticism of Gyeongseong-centric disparity in the study of Uisaeng , this study seeks to reproduces the differences among regions. As the oriental medical doctors, Uisaeng was heterogeneous to be subsumed under the Western-centric modern medical system. However, due to poor medical conditions, the colonial power attempted to utilize Uisaeng. Accordingly, colonial power recreated them as modern medical practitioners by selecting, educating, evaluating, and censoring them. Meanwhile, diverse strategies to use and mobilize Uisaeng were implemented depending on regional circumstances as local public health authorities gained more autonomy due to the reorg anized local system in the 1920’s.