Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / Yi-Li Wu.
- Wu, Yi-Li, 1965-
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
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Description
"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.
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-342) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.