Psychiatric Casualties during the Korean War: Focusing on American and Common Wealth Soldiers.

A crucial gap in the medical history of the Korean War is the history of psychiatry during the Korean War. War puts those who participate in it through physical and mental extremes, inflicting not only physical injuries but also psychological trauma and damage. However, studies of the medical aspects of the Korean War have been limited to topics related to physical injuries and their treatment, and there are no studies that systematically summarize the traumatic effects on the human mind thrown into the midst of the war, the consequences of these effects, and the medical efforts made to deal with these problems.

A History of Teaching Medical History in Medical Schools in Europe and America.

Medical history was an important part of medicine in the West from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and until the Renaissance. Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna were historical figures, but they dominated the medicine of the Western world at least until Renaissance. The medicine of the past, which did not become history, still remained an important part of present medicine.

The Birth of Hospital, Asclepius cult and Early Christianity.

History of hospital is one of main fields of researches in medical history. Besides writing a history of an individual hospital, considerable efforts have been made to trace the origin of hospital. Those who quest for the origin of hospital are faced with an inevitable problem of defining hospital.

U.S. military administration's malaria control activities (1945-1948).

To prevent and control infectious diseases was one of the major concerns of U.S. military government when they stationed in Korea in 1945.

[Zhuzhiqunzheng, the Jesuit translation of Western medicine and its influence on Korean and Chinese intellectuals].

The Jesuits were great transmitters of Western science to East Asia in the 17th and 18th century. In 1636, a German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591-1666) published a book titled Zhuzhiqunzheng (Hundreds of Signs Testifying Divine Providence). The book was not Adam Schall's own writing, but it was the Chinese translation of De providentia numinis (1613) of Leonardus Lessius (1554-1623) who was also a Jesuit scholar.

[Heat and Fever in ancient Greek physiology].

This paper aims at clarifying the relationship of physiological heat and pathological heat(fever) using the theoretical scheme of Georges Canguilhem as is argued in his famous book The Normal and the Pathologic. Ancient authors had presented various views on the innate heat and pathological heat. Some argued that there is only pathological heat while others, like Galen, distinguished two different kinds of heat.

[The establishment of SUMC (Severance Union Medical College) Psychiatry Department and the formation of humanistic tradition].

Psychiatry is a branch of medicine which deals with the problem of mental health. Although psychiatric concept and treatment is not absent in traditional medicine in Korea, it was not regarded as an independent discipline of medicine. Modern psychiatry was introduced into Korea as modern Western medicine w as introduced in 19th century.

[Traditional medicine seen from the perspective of Western medicine during the late 19th and early 20th century in Korea].

From the 18th century traditional medicine began to be criticised by some of Korean intellectuals who attained the knowledge of Western medicine through the imported books on Western science. In the early 20th century, Western medical doctors in Korea generally had critical attitude toward traditional medicine. Their critical opinions on traditional medicine are typically recognizable in the debate between two camps that occurred in 1930s.

[The gaze of the others: how the Western medical missionaries viewed the traditional Korean medicine].

It is generally known that the Western medical missionaries played an important role in introducing Western medicine into Korea. However, little is known about their role in introducing traditional medicine of Korea to the Western world. The present paper aims at showing various efforts of the Western medical missionaries to understand the Korean traditional medicine and to introduce it to the Western world.

Hippocrates in the context of Galen: Galen's commentary on the classification of fevers in Epidemics VI.

This paper elucidates the relationship between Hippocrates and Galen concerning the classification of fever and illustrates Galen's use and abuse of Hippocrates. Galen used Epidemics VI in order to justify his own arguments on the classification of fever, based on the three forms of matter. A close examination of Galen's use of Epidemics VI does not support his justification.

[Paul D. Choy: A life for learning].

Paul D. Choy was born on February 26th, 1896. He spent his childhood in Japan and America, and he returned to Korea when he turned twenty one years old.

[A history of the research department of the Severance Union Medical College].

The Research Department of the Severance Union Medical College was founded on November 4th, 1914. Drs. R.

[The ginseng growing district, taxation and trade in ancient Korea].

The very first record of ginseng in the Korean peninsula dates back to early 6th century A.D., with its concentration in Chinese sources.

[A study on the origins of 'Korean ginseng'].

Generally, the originating area of ginseng is known to be in Shangdang, China. The originating time, which has been estimated according to textual and archeological outcomes, is known to be the first century B.C.

[Hippocrates and the nineteenth-century French medicine].

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, has been represented in many ways throughout the history of medicine. His influence on later medicine took different forms from one epoch to another. Hippocrates' medical doctrine was quite influential until Renaissance period, and with the arrival of modern medicine, the method or the spirit of Hippocrates had been valued more highly than his medical doctrine.

[A study on the true nature of "Chinese jinseng"].

Studies generally, it is believed that the ancient 'Chinese ginseng' did exist due to the fact that it is clearly recorded in the Chinese historical and medicine-related sources. Although it is hard to deny that such 'ginseng' did exist in ancient China, the re-examination of its true nature is also necessary. In other words, certain refutation can be made against the claim that ancient 'Chinese jinseng' was in fact 'Panax jinseng' (C.

[The concept of disease in Galen].

Galen was, with no doubt, a great authority in ancient medicine rivalled only with "the father of medicine" Hippocrates. His medicine inherited not only Hippocratic tradition, which is characterized by dynamic pathology, but also Alexandrian medicine, which made a great contribution to anatomy. He did not generalize all the pathological phenomena according to one dogmatic theory.

[A history of medical license in Korea].

Medical license is to qualify a person for medical practice and to attribute him/her a privileged right in the practice. This privileged and exclusive right asks for protection from the side of a state and the state in turn needs qualified medical personnel in order to carry out her task of public health, one of the main duties of modern states. In Europe, physicians succeeded in obtaining medical license that guarantees the privileged right in a highly competitive medical market against other practitioners.