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Asia Pacific Perspectives Vol. 14 No. 1, Fall 2016, University Of San Francisco
Asia Pacific Perspectives Vol. 14 No. 1, Fall 2016, University Of San Francisco
Asia Pacific Perspectives
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 …