This article analyzes the formation of the development-oriented path of the South Korean healthcare system in the 1960s as a complex outcome of shifts in domestic politics and foreign aid. To this end, it focuses on the Public Health Evaluation & Planning Program (1960—1962), a...
This study reexamines the position and significance of the Jain medical tradition, long marginalized in the history of Indian medicine, by analyzing the embryological discourse in the Jain text Taṇḍulaveyāliya. Existing narratives of Indian medical history have predominantly...
This essay examines the emergence of obstetric anesthesia through two competing methods for “painless childbirth” in early twentieth-century America: Twilight Sleep and Sunrise Slumber. It explores the ways in which childbirth practices were established in America at the turn...
