التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Asia Pacific Perspectives Vol. 14 No. 1, Fall 2016 |
| المؤلفون: |
Dale, Melissa |
| المصدر: |
Asia Pacific Perspectives |
| بيانات النشر: |
a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center |
| سنة النشر: |
2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Medicine, surgery, breast cancer, South Korea, HIV/AIDS, Japan, historical medicine, China, domestic science, Philippines, education, epidemics, socio, scipo |
| الوصف: |
Contents: Editor's Introduction by Melissa Dale This special issue presents five papers focused on themes related to the social history of medicine and contemporary cultural understandings of disease and patients' lived experiences in the Asia Pacific. Rethinking Breast Mountain (Yuam): Surgical Treatments of Breast Cancer in South Korea, 1959-1993 by Soyoung Suh This article analyzes premodern Korean medical treatises, professional surgical journals, and patient memoirs to expand our understanding of surgical treatment of breast cancer between 1959 and 1993 in South Korea. This essay discusses changing historical connotations of breast ailments, treatments, and surgical interventions. Although the depiction of breast cancer as a "suddenly emerging yet properly controllable epidemic" imagines a brighter future for Korean women, it often discounts past experience, and ignores contested ideas of the causes and treatments of the disease. The author traces the medical discourse around the adoption and rejection of Halsted's radical mastectomy procedure, and patient discourse through the memoir of Yi Hyo-suk's response to her own radical mastectomy in the late 1970's, in order to illustrate the manifold narratives about surgical intervention across time and profession. Walking the Walk, Talking the Talk: Narratives that Challenge HIV/AIDS Taboos in Japan by Pamela Runestad Illness narratives of Japanese people living with HIV/AIDS (yōseisha 陽性者) are written, performed, and embodied in culturally patterned ways that aim to simultaneously protect the narrator from stigmatization and discrimination while fostering public engagement and discussion about HIV/ AIDS so that Japanese, whatever their HIV status, can ‘live positively together’. These narratives demonstrate the efforts of yōseisha to assert their normalcy as Japanese through self-presentation on one hand, but advocate for acceptance of diversity on the other by stating that they cannot speak for all yōseisha. To illustrate these points, written, spoken, and . |
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