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Reproducing women [electronic resource] : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / Yi-Li Wu.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: xiii, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources:
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 childbir th -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/Summary: "Uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of med icine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of 'medicine for women' (fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues a ssociated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nine teenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contentio n that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases."--Publis her description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-342) and index.

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 childbir th -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health.

"Uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of med icine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of 'medicine for women' (fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues a ssociated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nine teenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contentio n that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases."--Publis her description.

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 a ccess: Intranet.

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