1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996247974903316

Autore

Wu Yi-Li <1965->

Titolo

Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / / Yi-Li Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-73255-2

9786612732553

0-520-94761-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Disciplina

362.198/400951

Soggetti

Childbirth - China - History

Women's health services - History

China Social life and customs 1644-1912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Late Imperial Fuke and the Literate Medical Tradition -- 2. Amateur as Arbiter: Popular Fuke Manuals in the Qing -- 3. Function and Structure in the Female Body -- 4. An Uncertain Harvest: Pregnancy and Miscarriage -- 5. "Born Like a Lamb": The Discourse of Cosmologically Resonant Childbirth -- 6. To Generate and Transform: Strategies for Postpartum Health -- Epilogue: Body, Gender, and Medical Legitimacy -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299771403321

Titolo

Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance : ICASQF, Bogotá, Colombia, June 2014 / / edited by Jaime A. Londoño, José Garrido, Daniel Hernández-Hernández

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-18239-0

9783319182391

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 98 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, , 2194-1017 ; ; 135

Disciplina

368.01

Soggetti

Actuarial science

Social sciences - Mathematics

Statistics

Actuarial Mathematics

Mathematics in Business, Economics and Finance

Statistics in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Modeling Electricity Spot Price Dynamics by Using Levy-Type Cox Processes: An Application to the Colombian Market -- Using Value-at-Risk (VaR) to Measure Market Risk of the Equity Inventory of a Market Maker.- Reverse mortgage schemes financing urban dynamics using the multiple decrement approach -- Speedup of Calibration and Pricing with SABR models: from equities to interest rates derivatives -- Bergman, Piterbarg and Beyond: Pricing Derivatives under Collateralization and Differential Rates.

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring contributions from industry and academia, this volume includes chapters covering a diverse range of theoretical and empirical



aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance, including portfolio management, derivative valuation, risk theory and the economics of insurance. Developed from the First International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, held at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá in June 2014, this volume highlights different approaches to issues arising from industries in the Andean and Carribean regions. Contributions address topics such as Reverse mortgage schemes and urban dynamics, modeling spot price dynamics in the electricity market, and optimizing calibration and pricing with SABR models.