1. “Normalizing” the South Korean Body / From the Unfamiliar to the Functional: Biomedicine, Ideology, and Rehabilitative Medicine in South Korea,
John DiMoia
National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of History & STS Group

2. Q: (1) The Standard Narrative?

3. The American Occupation, 1945-1948

4. Re-entry to Korea, 1946

6. Hoover Collection / Korean War

7. The Wartime Medical Context?

8. The Injured Body / K War-era Propaganda

9. ROK Rehabilitative Medicine (circa 1954 /재활 의학 )

11. I. Basic Factors / Causes Motivating Change?: the Korean War Context

12. Among the Possible Agents of this transformation: Dr. Howard Rusk
Among the Possible Agents of this transformation: Dr. Howard Rusk? / & the AKF

13. Dr. Howard Rusk
NY Times column / early 1950s to 1969

14. Briefly, the AKF Background Context / Its Activities
American-Korean Foundation (AKF) and KAVA (Korean-American Voluntary Associations)
Numerous prominent East Coast names, figures: e.g., along with Dr. Rusk, members of the Rockefeller Family, Milton Eisenhower

15. Into the early Postwar (1955) / South Korean Doctors Begin to Study at NYU (Institute)

16. List of Korean Doctors, late 1950s / Physical Medicine Mobilized (Institute / Orthopedics?)

17. Dr. Kim Ki Ho, for example . . .

18. II. National Rehabilitation Center: Background Context?
Its Prior History?
Intersections / Overlaps?

19. National Rehabilitation Center / 국립 중앙 재활원 (1954- ): “Nation”
National Rehabilitation Center / 국립 중앙 재활원 ( ): “Nation”? (And the form of medical practice?)

21. Tongnae, by the numbers

23. Tracing the Process of Transformation @ the NRC?
1) From a child / orphans home;
2) To a veteran’s facility; (e.g., Beth Linker);
3) to a rehabilitation center per se?

25. Theodore Jun Yoo / University of Hawaii

26. III. ROK Health Insurance Scheme (1963-1977)
1963: first provision for health insurance, voluntary
1977: (military rule) employees and dependents, in large firms (more than 500 employees)
1989: (democratization) mandatory, regional, for urban residents

27. Joseph Wong / “Healthy Democracies”

28. “Reconstructing Bodies”
“Reconstructing Bodies”: Biomedicine, Health and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945
(Stanford University Press, &
Columbia WEAI )

29. Thanks~