전통의학 차별 속에서도 일제 식민 지배에 맞선 한의(약)계의 독립운동

Abstract

From the High Antiquity Period, Eastern Medicine (and medical studies), which have been passed down, were thoroughly undervalued and treated as barbaric alongside the Western-style modernization policies during the Japanese colonial era, leading to legal and institutional discrimination. Such transitions, often branded as innovation, invariably bring confusion, division, and conflict. Starting with occupational discrimination, certain professional groups, entangled with nationalistic discrimination, the struggle for occupational survival, and the calling of the independence movement, entered and expanded into a new phase. Practitioners of Oriental Medicine formed alliances by establishing organizations to preserve traditional medicine, with efforts manifesting as records of 'military doctors' being incorporated into the armed forces starting from the post-Righteous Army (1907) period. Subsequently, Oriental Medicine practitioners participated in the March 1st Movement and played roles under the provisional government's united command system, employing unique strategies for independence utilizing their professional specialties. This study comprehensively analyzes the status shifts and sur vival crises of Oriental Medicine, including participation in the Righteous Army in the 1900s and the independence movement in the 1910s.