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Biography Historical Article
[The life of Dr. John William Heron, the second superintendent of Chejungwon].
The purpose of this paper is to overview the life of John W. Heron, M. D. who was the first appointed medical missionary to Korea by the Presbyterian Church USA. ⋯ Heron should be remembered in the Korean history of mission, because he was the first victim among the foreign missionaries who had lived and worked in Seoul for Korean mission. Dr. Heron's mind of love, service and devotion should be remembered by the medical doctors working today in caring for the patients suffering from physical and spiritual illnesses.
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The National Institute of Health (NIH) under the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Korean Government was established in 1963, integrating four institutes: National Institute of Health, National Chemical Laboratories, National Laboratory of Herb Medicine and National Institute of Public Health Training. The root, however, goes down to the Bacteriology Laboratory, opened in 1912 with the function for microbiological testing and pox vaccine development, which was absorbed into the former National Institute of Health in 1948 when the government of the Republic of Korea was inaugurated. The Institute opened a satellite office, the Masan Branch in 1977, and was further expanded, adding the Divisions of AIDS and Biotechnology in 1988. ⋯ Simultaneously, a new department, the Department of Biomedical science was organized, which currently consists of five divisions; the Divisions of Cancer Research, Degenerative Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases, Metabolic Diseases and Genetic Diseases. In 1999, in order to provide a rapid and effective disease control, the Department of Communicable Diseases was newly founded, merging the Division of Disease Control and Prevention from the Ministry of Health and Welfare. With these steady and significant changes, the NIH, together with the training of health manpower, has become the national organization for research, prevention and control of various diseases of public health importance in Korea.
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Historical Article
[The scenes of doctor-patient meeting in the contemporary Korean novels: chiefly on the basis of doctor's reading on patients].
"Medicine as an art" implies that there is something in medicine beyond the limit of science. The practice of medicine is far more than the simple application of scientific principles to a particular biologic aberration. The communication between a doctor and a patient is the core component of medical practice, but little attention has been generally drawn to it. ⋯ And the 3 parts of whose figure and relationship with Sorok Island have changed throughout the work. The doctors should have abundant experiences of life to make the dialogic reading possible. The dialogic reading can be realized, in its true sense, only if they see the patient not as a disease, but as a man and only if they make efforts to understand his circumstances.
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Historical Article
[Development of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine and change of medical policy in China].
"Sect of Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine" came into the world four hundred years ago when Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) contacted Western Medicine (WM) at the beginning of the 17th century. It collected historical experiences showing that the cooperation of TCM and WM is more efficient for the cure and prevention of disease than each of them separately. Now the recognition that the cooperation of eastern and western medicine is more efficient to cure disease is spreading widely. ⋯ ITCWM has been settled down as a new academic field through education, training, research, academic activity, and publishing text books. In conclusion, the motive of the development of ITCWM was the policy such as "the effort of research and development on TCM-WM integration" abd "equality of TCM and WM" aimed at the development of Chinese medical area. It is no doubt helpful to organize systems and policy-making for the cooperation of eastern and western medicine in Korea.