- Overview
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How do we create the knowledge we need? We question the “knowledge” surrounding the body at the very forefront of knowledge itself.
- Book Intro
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This is a book based on a review of more than 1,120 dissertations and 300 works of literature. It transcends time and space and captures the competition of knowledge and the struggle of intellectuals surrounding us at the very forefront of knowledge itself. As the author states, "The human body is a battlefield where various perspectives compete." This book deals with this idea that our body has become a battlefield of knowledge. It describes the production process for knowledge surrounding the body, which types of knowledge are or are not produced, who produces certain knowledge, and why we need to ask questions about what is referred to as common sense, all in order to build the knowledge we really need.
- About the Author
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Kim Seungsup
Kim Seungsup graduated from the Medical School of Yonsei University and received his MA from the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health and PhD from the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Health. Having previously worked as a lecturer at the George Washington University Graduate School of Public Health, Kim has currently been working as an associate professor at the Korea University School of Public Health Department of Public Health Policy Management and the Department of Health Science at the graduate school of the same university since 2013. In 2016, he received the Seoktap Lecture Award, an excellence lecture award from Korea University. As a social epidemiologist, Kim has been conducting research on how social factors such as discrimination and job insecurity have a negative influence on the health of disadvantaged groups including married migrant women, temporary workers, and sexual minorities.
- Award
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National Library of Korea, 2019, Good Book to Read on Holiday
- Selection
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"Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), 2019, Science Book of the Year Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, 2019, Sejong Books for Liberal Arts Ministry of National Defense, 2019, Armed Service Library of the Ministry of National Defense"
