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4 ‘A vaccine for the nation’: South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns Eun Kyung Choi and Young-Gyung Paik Introduction When the scale of hepatitis B infection in South Korea came to light in the 1970s, the emerging public debate on the disease centred on the method of transmission. South Korean medical
12 Moving forward: Australian flight nurses in the Korean War Maxine Dahl During the Second World War Australia developed an efficient air evacuation system for its battlefield casualties that saw wounded men transported by air and accompanied by trained flight teams. Management of this system was the responsibility of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The air evacuation system was based on the US air evacuation model from the Second World War in which the registered nurse assumed the role of team leader for the duration of the flight.1 For RAAF flight
11 The Norwegian Mobile Army Surgical Hospital: Nursing at the front Jan-Thore Lockertsen, Ashild Fause, Christine E. Hallett and Jane Brooks ‘Why I did go to Korea? I guess it was the same reason that I left my home and travelled 1,000 kilometres to train as a nurse. I was young and adventurous.’1 The Korean War is ‘the forgotten war’, the war ‘in between’ the Second World War and the Vietnam War. Margot Isaksen was one of the 111 nurses who served as a ward nurse or theatre nurse at The Norwegian Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (NORMASH) in the period during
evident most famously in Germany's history of National Socialism and the idea of an ‘Aryan race’. This symbiosis is again made visible in the problem of the ‘non-white’ immigrants to European countries and the US, which reinforces the idea of a white nation (El-Haj, 2007 ; Schinagl, 2019 ). More recently, the focus of citizenship and belonging has been reframed within the language of genomics, as observed by scholars looking at Taiwan (Tsai and Lee, 2020 ), India (Subramaniam, 2019 ), South Africa (Erasmus, 2017 ), and Korea (Gottweis and Kim, 2009 ) within the
. Gondouin , J. and Thapar-Bjorkert , S. (forthcoming, 2022 ). Indian native companions and Korean camptown women: unpacking coloniality in transnational surrogacy and adoption . In S. Vertommen , M. Nahman and B. Parry (eds), Spring. Catalyst : Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Special Issue Colonial Lineages of Global Fertility Chains . Gupta , J
clearly recent experience of dealing with viral threats of this sort, which is why South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam, all of whom were exposed to avian flu and SARS, have dealt with it so effectively. But another, so it has been suggested, has been the greater readiness on the part of their publics to act in solidarity and in conformity with state-based regulations. 6 For now, in the absence of proper
starting point, and ending with the highly technical work of trauma nurses and ‘flight nurses’ during the Korean War (1950–53). Previous histories of nursing and war have tended to fall between a number of paradigms, including women’s history, medical history and nursing history. The early historiography of women and war focused on the advantages gained by women during a war.2 More recently, women’s historians have identified that, although women may gain advantages during war, through employment and an expansion of their societal roles, these advantages are lost at the
This book demonstrates the continuities and the changes in wartime nursing during the one hundred years, from 1854 to 1953. It examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. The influence that Florence Nightingale had on Southern women providing nursing care to Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War, and the work of the flight nurses, are detailed. The book also examines the challenges faced by nurses caring for the thousands of soldiers suffering from typhoid epidemics, and those at the Norwegian Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (NORMASH). The decades following the Crimean War witnessed a burgeoning of personal narratives relating accounts of nurses who ministered to combatants in the Franco-Prussian and Anglo-Zulu wars. In considering the work of First World War military nurses, the book explores the dangerous military and political worlds in which nurses negotiated their practice. The book argues that the air evacuation system which had originated during the Second World War was an exciting nursing innovation for the service of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). At the beginning of the Second Anglo-Boer War, there were three distinct groups of female nurses: the Army Nursing Reserve; civilian nurses; and volunteers, many of whom came under the auspices of the Red Cross. The humanitarian work of trained and volunteer nurses after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen in 1945, and their clinical wisdom enabled many of the victims to rehabilitate.
and Korean medicine is not hard and fast and keeps changing, with practitioners of the latter now attempting to incorporate the imaging technology of computed tomography into their practice. The translatability of technologies, as they have claimed, changes according to the context of disputes over the scope and nature of Korean medicine. What complicate the East/West dichotomy in healing are the boundaries among medical traditions in East Asia, where herbal formulas, therapeutic methods and healing philosophies have been exchanged for thousands
, Women Who Went to War, 1938–46 (London: Robert Hale, 1988); Eric Taylor, Front-Line Nurse: British Nurses in World War II (London: Robert Hale, 1997); Eric Taylor, Combat Nurse (London: Robert Hale, 1999); Eric Taylor, Wartime Nurse: 100 years from the Crimea to Korea 1854–1954 (London: Robert Hale, 2001). 18 Toman, An Officer and a Lady, 10. F.A.E. Crew, ‘The Army medical services’, in Arthur Salusbury MacNalty and W. Franklin Mellor (eds), Medical Services in War: The Principal Medical Lessons of the Second World War (London: HMSO, 1968), 77–81. There are numerous