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UNINA9910715385803321 |
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Martin Angel |
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Titolo |
Geohydrology and regional ground-water flow of the coastal lowlands aquifer system in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, a preliminary analysis / / by Angel Martin, Jr. and C.D. Whiteman, Jr |
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1989 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 88 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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Water-resources investigations report ; ; 88-4100 |
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WhitemanCharles D <1931-> (Charles Decker) |
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Groundwater flow - Gulf Coast (U.S.) |
Hydrogeology - Gulf Coast (U.S.) |
Aquifers - Gulf Coast (U.S.) |
Aquifers |
Groundwater flow |
Hydrogeology |
United States Gulf Coast |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-25). |
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UNINA9910785269403321 |
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Autore |
Wu Yi-Li <1965-> |
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Reproducing women [[electronic resource] ] : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / / Yi-Li Wu |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
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1-282-73255-2 |
9786612732553 |
0-520-94761-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (378 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Childbirth - China - History |
Women's health services - History |
China Social life and customs 1644-1912 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective. |
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