Psychiatric Casualties during the Korean War: Focusing on American and Common Wealth Soldiers [PDF]
A crucial gap in the medical history of the Korean War is the history of psychiatry during the Korean War. War puts those who participate in it through physical and mental extremes, inflicting not only physical injuries but also psychological trauma and ...
In-sok YEO
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Observations from the Korean War for Modern Military Medicine [PDF]
This paper reviews developments in military medicine during the Korean War and places them in the evolution of military medical lessons from the Second World War and the subsequent development of military medicine through the Vietnam War to the present ...
Martin CM Bricknell
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A Foundation for a “Cheerful Society”: The Korean War and the Rise of Psychiatry [PDF]
One of the most remarkable medical achievements of the Korean War was the development of psychiatry. During the Korean War, soldiers and prisoners of war (POWs) experienced “gross stress reaction” and manifested poor concentration and memory as well as ...
Ji-Hye Shin, Sung-Vin Yim
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Establishment and Operation of Wartime Health Care System in North Korea during the Korean War and Support from the Korean Society in Yanbian [PDF]
North Korea's health care system during the Korean War has a significant meaning in North Korean medical history and is also an appropriate research topic for understanding North Korea's wartime system.
Mira MOON
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DDT Resistance Korean Body Lice and Development of Insecticide Resistance Knowledge during Korean War [PDF]
DDT exemplifies success and failure of modern science and technology. Once it was heralded as technological wonder that will deliver human from misery of insect-borne infectious disease.
Junho JUNG
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The causes and numbers of hospital admissions and deaths during the Korean War [PDF]
Purpose The aim of this study is to present the causes and numbers of hospital admissions and deaths at hospital of Korean soldiers including civilian worker during the Korean War.
Kun Hwang, Hun Kim, Chan Yong Park
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Are There Spillover Effects from the GI Bill? The Mental Health of Wives of Korean War Veterans. [PDF]
BackgroundThe Korean War GI Bill provided economic benefits for veterans, thereby potentially improving their health outcomes. However potential spillover effects on veteran wives have not been evaluated.MethodsData from wives of veterans eligible for ...
Anusha M Vable +5 more
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Unstable Expansion: The Development of the Military Medical Evacuation Chain in Korea, 1948–1953 [PDF]
This research examines the expansion and characteristics of the Korean Army’s chain of medical evacuation in 1948–1953. The most important goal of the chain of medical evacuation was to conserve fighting strength, which cannot be achieved only by sending
Jaegoo KANG, Yunjae PARK
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A war they don’t want to end (On the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement) [PDF]
Almost 70 years ago, on July 27, 1953 the representatives of the warring parties of the DPRK and PRC – the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), leader of the DPRK Kim Il Sung and the Commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army ...
Kim En Un
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“Breaking the Dam to Reunify our Country”: Alternate Histories of the Korean War in Contemporary South Korean Cinema [PDF]
This article analyzes three contemporary South Korean films that (re)present alternate histories of the Korean War: 2009 Lost Memories (2009 Rosŭt’ŭmemorichŭ) (Lee Simyung (I Simyŏng), 2002), Welcome to Dongmakgol (Welk’ŏm t’u Tongmakkol) (Park Kwang ...
Kristen Sun
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