미수(麋壽) 이갑수(李甲秀)의 생애와 사상: 우생 관련 사상과 활동을 중심으로open accessLife and Ideas of LEE Kap-Soo: Focusing on the Ideas and Activities Related to Eugenics
- Other Titles
- Life and Ideas of LEE Kap-Soo: Focusing on the Ideas and Activities Related to Eugenics
- Authors
- 신영전; 정일영
- Issue Date
- Apr-2019
- Publisher
- KOREAN SOC HIST MED
- Keywords
- LEE Kap-Soo; Eugenics; Korea Eugenics Society; leprosy; sterilization law; 이갑수; 우생학; 우생협회; 우생론; 한센병; 단종법
- Citation
- KOREAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HISTORY, v.28, no.1, pp.43 - 88
- Indexed
- AHCI
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- KOREAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HISTORY
- Volume
- 28
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 43
- End Page
- 88
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/148043
- DOI
- 10.13081/kjmh.2019.28.43
- ISSN
- 1225-505X
- Abstract
- Lee Kap-Soo (April 23, 1889-December 5, 1973) graduated from Gyeongseong Medical College in 1920, went to Germany to study, and returned to Korea after graduating from Berlin University in 1924. On September 14, 1933, he played a leading role in the founding of the Joseon Eugenics Society, and he contributed eugenic ideas through written publications and lectures. He was a leading eugenicist who continued his activities related to eugenics, such as re-establishing the Korean National Eugenics Society and making efforts to enact the Eugenics Act after Korea's liberation from Japanese occupation. His ideas on eugenics were then a rapid acceptance of the world's times and science, and his ideas were an expanded eugenics that emphasized the nation. He actively carried out the campaign for eugenics and maintained a consistent stance before and after liberation. His eugenic ideas and activities show that Korean society was not free from the influence of eugenics that was gaining popularity around the world. His eugenic ideas were related to enlightenment, but the basis of eugenics was the logic of discrimination and exclusion. In particular, his eugenic ideas and activities have caused pain to Hansen's patients through forced isolation and discontinuation. In addition, his doctrine of eugenics still holds sway in Korean society. The history of Lee Kap-Soo's life and eugenics-related activities shows the important points and characteristics of the history of eugenics in Korean society before and after the liberation from Japan, and furthermore provides an important clue in understanding and explaining the colonial vestige in Korean society, economic growth first ideology, enthusiasm for scientific development, and competitive social culture.
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