麻风病之罪:红色威胁与冷战时期朝鲜的美国汉森病政策

IF 0.4 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

AMERASIA JOURNAL Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI:10.1080/00447471.2022.2036536

Ka-eul Yoo

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摘要本文探讨了韩国的麻风病患者是如何以及为什么成为冷战意识形态的战场的。在美国干预亚洲战争的背景下，我认为冷战时期关于传染病的叙述使用了医学术语，将“传染性”意识形态与汉森病混为一谈。通过阅读美国信息服务局制作的一部电影《希望的Litany》（1962），我分析了美国冷战意识形态如何将韩国的汉森病患者描述为需要人道主义医疗干预的不可战胜的内部敌人。

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The Crime of Leprosy: The Red Threat and U.S. Hansen’s Disease Policy in Cold War Korea

ABSTRACT This article examines how and why Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients in South Korea emerged as a Cold War ideological battleground. Against the backdrop of U.S. wars of intervention in Asia, I argue that Cold War narratives of contagion used medical terms to conflate “infectious” ideologies and Hansen’s disease. Through reading Litany of Hope (1962), a film produced by the United States Information Service and loosely based on the life of Korean poet and former Hansen’s disease patient Han Ha-un, I analyze how U.S. Cold War ideology characterized Hansen’s disease patients in South Korea as recuperable internal enemies in need of humanitarian medical intervention.

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期刊介绍： Since 1971, the Press has published Amerasia Journal, the leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American Studies. After more than three decades and over 16,000 pages, Amerasia Journal has played an indispensable role in establishing Asian American Studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service, and public discourse.