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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2010.
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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.