Publication: In Sickness and in Health: Americans and Psychiatry in Korea, 1950-1962
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2014-06-06
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Yum, Jennifer. 2014. In Sickness and in Health: Americans and Psychiatry in Korea, 1950-1962. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.
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This dissertation begins with a simple set of questions: how and why did the Western discipline of psychiatry gain traction in the Republic of Korea? My answers point to the Korean War and the US-ROK alliance as the two most important factors enabling this phenomenon.
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Asian history, History of science, American history, American Psychiatry, Korean Psychiatry, Korean War, Military Psychiatry, US-Korean Relations
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