Reproducing Women : Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China /

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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
Autor principal: Wu, Yi-Li, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Health and hygiene.
Reproductive health.
Manners and customs.
Childbirth.
Metaphor.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
metaphor.
Metaphore.
Medecine > Histoire > 1500-
Sante de la reproduction > Chine > Histoire.
Reproductive Medicine > history
Metaphor
History, Modern 1601-
Gynecology > history
Women > Health and hygiene > China > History.
Reproductive health > China > History.
Childbirth > China > History.
China.
Chine > Moeurs et coutumes > 1644-1912.
China
China > Social life and customs > 1644-1912.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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 (378 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520947610

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