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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wu, Yi-Li, 1965- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.