Colonial medicine
How did colonial Korea handle malaria?
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Japanese malaria work in Korea looked like other Asian empires in burden, but the response differed from European colonies and from Taiwan, against a changing Korean epidemiology.
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Japanese malaria work in Korea looked like other Asian empires in burden but differed from European colonies and Taiwan against a changing Korean epidemiology.
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Japanese malaria work in Korea looked like other Asian empires in burden but differed from European colonies and Taiwan against a changing Korean epidemiology.
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- Qualitative / archival — History of Japanese malaria governance in colonial Korea versus Taiwan and European colonies
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- Colonial medical-policy history (c.1876–1945); not a sample N
- Population
- Malaria epidemiology and sanitary-police responses in colonial Korea under Japanese rule
- Outcome
- Distinct Korean (vivax-heavy) pattern and wartime quinine-supply failure under colonial administration
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How did colonial Korea handle malaria?
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Imperial similarity?
Japanese colonialism in Korea was similar to that of territories acquired by the European powers in other parts of Asia. In British India, for example, mal
What differed?
ways in which the Japanese dealt with malaria in Korea differed from the interventions of the European powers and also from those of Japan in its other col
Key findings
Before the late 1890s, Western doctors often tied ‘malaria’ to swamps rather than a single parasite disease. Korean malaria was mostly less-deadly vivax. Sanitary police gained wide administrative control. Under the war regime quinine vanished; vivax could winter in human hosts, so interrupted treatment failed.
Methodology
The article tracks what ‘malaria’ meant before Ross’s Anopheles finding, Korea’s vivax-heavy pattern versus Taiwan’s falciparum, sanitary-police governance after annexation, and wartime collapse of quinine supply.
Limitations
This is a colonial-policy history, not a new parasitology survey. It does not estimate a modern incidence series. Comparisons with India and Taiwan are illustrative, not a full imperial census.
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