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Medicine for women in imperial China /
This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in early China also reflected religious and social issues. The authors, based in North America and East Asia, describe and analyze women's bodies, illnesses, and childbirth experiences according to a variety of archaeological materials and historical texts. The essays reveal a rich and complex picture of early views on the female medical and social body that have wide implications for other institutions of the period, and on medicine and women in the later imperial era. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | "Bibliography of secondary sources on medicine and gender-early imperial China, by Charlotte Furth": pages 201-208 |
| ISBN: | 9789047409922 9047409922 9789004151963 9004151966 |