Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I RECOLLECTING SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES
6. 1 Aligning Patterns in the Material World: Sciences in Chosŏn Korea 19
7. 2 Medicine as a Virtuous Art in Chosŏn and Colonial Korea 44
8. 3 Cloning National Pride: Science, Technology, and the Korean Dream of Joining the “Advanced World” 67
9. PART II RESTORING MINDS AND BODIES
10. 4 The Suicidal Person: The Medicalization and Gendering of Suicide in Colonial Korea 93
11. 5 In Search of an Anticommunist Nation: The World Health Organization and Public Health Planning in Postwar Korea 115
12. 6 From Ruin to Revival: Mobilizing the Body, Child Welfare, and the Hybrid Origins of Rehabilitative Medicine in South Korea, 1954–1961 132
13. 7 Suffering Longevity: Life, Time, Money, and the Stem Cell Business in the Centenarian Era 155
14. PART III PROSTHETIC ARTS
15. 8 Photography, Technology, and Realism in 1950s Korea 177
16. 9 Long-Distance Recall: Nam June Paik and the Prosthetics of Memory 204
17. 10 Affect in the End of Days: South Korean Science Fiction Cinema, Doomsday Book, and Affective Estrangement 225
18. Bibliography 245
19. Contributors 263
20. Index 267