Medical Policies toward Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Korea and India

Both the British and Japan emphasized the superiority of Western medicine to indigenous in their colonies, India and Korea respectively, partly relying on the practice of indigenous medicine due to the lack of qualified doctors. The British and Japan, however, differed in acting medical law on indigenous practitioners and affected the sociopolitical space where the revivalist movements for indigenous medicine resulted from indigenous medical practitioners in India and the Japanese colonial government in Korea. It is worth noting that the two imperial powers politicized Western and indigenous medicine in similar fashion to legitimize their rules over the colonies. KCI Citation Count: 4