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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wu, Yi-Li, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520947610
0520947614
0520260686
9780520260689