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Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
Yi-Li Wu
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Description for Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
Hardback. Examines the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of 'medicine for women' (fuke), this book explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. It analyzes the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. Num Pages: 378 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 656.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520260689
SKU
V9780520260689
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Ref
99-1
About Yi-Li Wu
Yi-Li Wu is an independent scholar and a Center Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.
Reviews for Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
"A major addition to the growing literature on the history of gender and medicine in Imperial China."
Angela Ki Che Leung Journal Of Chinese Studies "Yi-Li Wu's volume is essential reading for students and researchers alike."
Larissa N. Heinrich East Asian Science, Technology, And Medicine "[A] well-written and extensively researched work on traditional medicine in late imperial China." Journal Of Interdisciplinary History "[Wu's] clear prose and concise explanations make this analysis of intricate ideas accessible... A fine introduction to the history of Chinese reproductive medicine." Harvard Journal Of Asiatic Stds "[Wu's] research is meticulous, her erudition deep but lighthanded, and her writing lucid... Conceptually and comparatively sophisticated." Journal Of Asian Stds (Jas) / Se Asia & Western Pacific "Splendid... Wu's broad command of difficult Chinese classical writings is sharpened by her mastery of the cross-cultural history of medicine." Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine
Angela Ki Che Leung Journal Of Chinese Studies "Yi-Li Wu's volume is essential reading for students and researchers alike."
Larissa N. Heinrich East Asian Science, Technology, And Medicine "[A] well-written and extensively researched work on traditional medicine in late imperial China." Journal Of Interdisciplinary History "[Wu's] clear prose and concise explanations make this analysis of intricate ideas accessible... A fine introduction to the history of Chinese reproductive medicine." Harvard Journal Of Asiatic Stds "[Wu's] research is meticulous, her erudition deep but lighthanded, and her writing lucid... Conceptually and comparatively sophisticated." Journal Of Asian Stds (Jas) / Se Asia & Western Pacific "Splendid... Wu's broad command of difficult Chinese classical writings is sharpened by her mastery of the cross-cultural history of medicine." Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine