Korean J Med Hist.  2012 Dec;21(3):513-550.

Racism of "Blood" and Colonial Medicine: Blood Group Anthropology Studies at Keijo Imperial University Department of Forensic Medicine

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  • 1Institute of Japanese Studies, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Korea. jungjy72@naver.com

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore implications of Colonial medicine's Blood Type Studies, concerning the characteristics and tasks of racism in the Japanese Colonial Empire. Especially, it focuses on the Blood Group Anthropology Studies at Keijo Imperial University Department of Forensic Medicine. In Colonial Korea, the main stream of Blood Type Studies were Blood Group Anthropology Studies, which place Korean people who was inferior to Japanese people in the geography of the race on the one hand, but on the other, put Koreans as a missing link between the Mongolian and the Japanese for fulfillment of the Japanese colonialism, that is, assimilationist ideology. Then, Compared to the Western medicine and Metropole medicine of Japan, How differentiated was this tendency of Colonial Medicine from them? In this paper, main issues of Blood Group Anthropology Studies and its colonial implications are examined.

Keyword

colonial medicine; Keijo Imperial University; Blood Group Anthropology; scientific racism; colonialism; SATO Takeo

MeSH Terms

Aluminum Hydroxide
Anthropology
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Carbonates
Colonialism
Continental Population Groups
Forensic Medicine
Geography
Hand
Humans
Hypogonadism
Japan
Korea
Mitochondrial Diseases
Ophthalmoplegia
Racism
Rivers
Aluminum Hydroxide
Carbonates
Hypogonadism
Mitochondrial Diseases
Ophthalmoplegia
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