Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China /
This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies fro. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520947610 0520947614 0520260686 9780520260689 |