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Cholera
The Religious Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Cholera, the Ghost Rite, and Missionary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea
Published on 03/02/2026 |
Original article (Abstract)
| Shin Kwon Kim | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2024; aop: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae001 17 min.
Protestant Christianity has been very successful in Korea, gaining a significant number of followers since the first American missionaries arrived in 1885. One of the reasons why Christianity flourished so quickly was that it was brought by medical missionaries who did not simply want to hand over “the...
