The Religious Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Cholera, the Ghost Rite, and Missionary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea

This study finds that even after the introduction of Western biomedicine, the Korean people persisted with a religious-based etiology of cholera and other infectious diseases until the twentieth century.PMID:38325345 | DOI:10.1093/jhmas/jrae001

Source: Medical History - February 7, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Shin Kwon Kim Source Type: research