Abstract:Hepatitis B was a stigmatizing disease because of its reputation as a problem of underdeveloped countries and marginalized people. Biomedicine, including vaccination and science-based sanitation, was regarded as the only effective measure against it. Hence, some scholars have assumed that bodies and the disease were merely objects of biomedical intervention essential for nation-building. Challenging this assumption, I argue that Korean bodies and hepatitis were instrumental in forming biomedical and nationalistic discourses and exercises in South Korea during the 1970s and 1980s. In a developmental dictatorship situated within changing Cold War politics, hepatitis B and bodies, with their biological and cultural relations, contributed to shaping biomedical investigations, enterprises, and practices that were interpreted and appropriated with nationalistic metaphors. Therefore, hepatitis B, alongside those who carried it, came to evoke the contradictory imageries that symbolized both the progress and backwardness of the country.

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身体和病毒：乙型肝炎的生物医学化塑造韩国的国家

摘要：乙型肝炎是一种耻辱性疾病，因为它是欠发达国家和边缘化人群的问题。生物医学，包括疫苗接种和以科学为基础的卫生设施，被认为是唯一有效的措施。因此，一些学者假设身体和疾病只是国家建设必不可少的生物医学干预的对象。挑战这一假设，我认为韩国的身体和肝炎在 1970 年代和 1980 年代在韩国形成生物医学和民族主义话语和实践方面发挥了重要作用。在处于不断变化的冷战政治中的发展独裁中，乙型肝炎和身体及其生物和文化关系有助于塑造生物医学调查、企业、以及被民族主义隐喻解释和挪用的实践。因此，乙肝和携带它的人一起，开始唤起象征国家进步和落后的矛盾意象。