Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Medical History, Gender, and the Body
  • 1. The Yellow Emperor's Body
  • 2. The Development of Fuke in the Song Dynasty
  • 3. Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine
  • 4. Rethinking Fuke in the Ming Dynasty
  • 5. To Benefit Yin: Fuke and Late Ming Medical Culture
  • 6. "Nourishing Life": Ming Bodies of Generation and Longevity
  • 7. A Doctor's Practice: Narratives of the Clinical Encounter in Late Ming Yangzhou
  • 8. In and Out of the Family: Ming Women as Healing Experts
  • 9. Conclusion.