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Theodore Jun Yoo
University of California Press

It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea

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AuthorTheodore Jun Yoo
PublisherUniversity of California Press
PublishedFeb 22 2016
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780520289307
Dimensions9.1 X 6.2 X 0.9 inches
Weight 1.24 pounds
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CategoriesMedical > Health Care Delivery
LanguageEnglish

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It's Madness examines Korea's years under Japanese colonialism, when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism, shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects compelled most Korean families to conceal the mentally ill behind closed doors. This book explores the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, the resilience of folk illnesses as explanations for inappropriate and dangerous behaviors, the emergence of clinical psychiatry as a discipline, and the competing models of care under the Japanese colonial authorities and Western missionary doctors. Drawing upon unpublished archival as well as printed sources, this is the first study to examine the ways in which madness was understood, classified, and treated in traditional Korea and the role of science in pathologizing and redefining mental illness under Japanese colonial rule.

Author Bio

Theodore Jun Yoo is associate professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He taught as associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was a member of the university's Center for Korean Studies.

He obtained his Ph.D from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations(EALC) at The University of Chicago. He developed the Korea Foundation-Social Science Research Council Dissertation Workship and Book Monograph Workshop with and for scholars in Korean Studies.

His research interests include modern Korean literature, Korean history, and contemporary Korean culture.

He is the author of The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945 (2014) and It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea (2016). He also contributed to Encounters Old and New in World History: Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley (Perspectives on the Global Past) (2017). He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Two Koreas: Two Nations in the Modern World.

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