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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wu, Yi-Li, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition
  • Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing
  • Function and structure in the female body
  • An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage
  • "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth
  • To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health
  • Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy.

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