Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial ChinaUniversity of California Press, 11.08.2010 - 378 Seiten 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 from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective. |
Inhalt
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Popular Fuke Manuals in the Qing | 54 |
3 Function and Structure in the Female Body | 84 |
Pregnancy and Miscarriage | 120 |
The Discourse of Cosmologically Resonant Childbirth | 147 |
Strategies for Postpartum Health | 188 |
Body Gender and Medical Legitimacy | 224 |
Notes | 237 |
Glossary | 311 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Index | 343 |
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Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China Yi-Li Wu Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2010 |
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