Bodies and viruses : biomedicalizing hepatitis B in shaping South Korea's nationhood

• Main Author: Park, Hyung Wook
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Hepatitis B; Nation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138101
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Hepatitis B was a stigmatizing disease because of its reputation as a problem of underdeveloped countries and marginalized people. Biomedicine, including vaccination and science-based sanitation, was regarded as the only effective measure against it. Hence, some scholars have assumed that bodies and...