| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 fro. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Childbirth -- China -- History.
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Childbirth. |
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China. |
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History. |
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Reproductive health -- China -- History.
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Reproductive health. |
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- China -- History.
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Women -- Health and hygiene. |
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Reproductive Medicine -- history. |
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Gynecology -- history. |
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Metaphor. |
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China. |
| Chronological Term |
1644-1912 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wu, Yi-Li, 1965- Reproducing women. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520260689 (DLC) 2010001036 (OCoLC)502304085 |
| ISBN |
9780520947610 (electronic book) |
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0520947614 (electronic book) |
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0520260686 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520260689 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520260689 |
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