Reproducing women, medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China, Yi-Li Wu
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Reproducing women, medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China, Yi-Li Wu
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-342) and index
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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illustrations
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Reproducing women
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electronic resource
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dictionariesbibliography
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663967918
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Yi-Li Wu
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
Sub title
medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China
Summary
"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."--Publisher description
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
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