17th century
18th century
19th century
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Category1=Non-Fiction
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childbearing
childbirth
china
chinese culture
chinese history
conception
COP=United States
cultural history
dangers of childbirth
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
development of medicine
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fuke
health issues
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historical perspective
ideological issues
Language_English
late imperial china
late imperial medicine
medical writings
medicine
miscarriage
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pregnancy
Price_€50 to €100
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qing dynasty
reproductive diseases
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women
womens bodies
womens issues
womens medicine
Product details
- ISBN 9780520260689
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Yi-Li Wu is an independent scholar and a Center Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.
