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2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Social change and the transformation of postpartum folk illness: comparative study between Korea and Taiwan

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 19K23132
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section 0104:Geography, cultural anthropology, folklore, and related fields
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Ethnology (2020-2021)
Nara Women's University (2019)

Principal Investigator

Che Sohee  国立民族学博物館, グローバル現象研究部, 助教 (80848359)

Project Period (FY) 2019-08-30 – 2022-03-31
Keywords病いの変化 / 台湾 / 韓国 / 産後風 / 月内風 / 東洋医学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on South Korean and Taiwanese postpartum illness narratives as a representative of folk (traditional) illness in the face of social changes. The existing system in Taiwan and South Korea, which has recognized both Western and Oriental medicine as equally specialized medical care, is being changed to a policy intended to integrate both systems. Therefore, Korean Oriental medicine in particular has integrated the classification of diseases into that of Western medicine, and Oriental medicine has been forced to standardize its conventional paradigm to match that of Western medicine.This illness in Oriental medicine is referred to as “産後風postpartum wind” in South Korea and “月子病” in Taiwan. These postpartum illnesses, which have been generally diagnosed and treated broadly, are now facing redefinition and change.

Free Research Field

人類学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

人々は病と病の治療について経験的に蓄積された知識を持っているし、その知識は多くの部分は歴史的に形成 されて、文化的背景の中で変化しながら構成される。病に対して理解することはその社会の文化を理解することの核心的要素になりえる。文化による病気の認識 と治療の変化に対する可能性は、同時的分析として同時代の多くの文化を理解することができる可能性を開き、通時的でも疾病の歴史的変化に対しても論ずることができるようになる。したがって疾病の認識と治療の慣行を把握することは一つの社会が共有する過去と現在の文化を理解するのに重要なだけでなく、未来の 再構成のための起草作業になった。

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Published: 2023-01-30  

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