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UNINA9910785269403321 |
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Autore |
Wu Yi-Li <1965-> |
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Titolo |
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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ISBN |
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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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Soggetti |
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Childbirth - China - History |
Women's health services - History |
China Social life and customs 1644-1912 |
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Formato |
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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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