03377nam 2200649Ia 450 991045923390332120200520144314.01-282-73255-297866127325530-520-94761-410.1525/9780520947610(CKB)2670000000044879(EBL)572071(OCoLC)663967918(SSID)ssj0000427054(PQKBManifestationID)11262022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427054(PQKBWorkID)10391381(PQKB)10353218(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055996(MiAaPQ)EBC572071(MdBmJHUP)muse31082(DE-B1597)519099(DE-B1597)9780520947610(Au-PeEL)EBL572071(CaPaEBR)ebr10409319(CaONFJC)MIL273255(EXLCZ)99267000000004487920100120d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReproducing women[electronic resource] medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China /Yi-Li WuBerkeley University of California Pressc20101 online resource (378 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26068-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThis 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.ChildbirthChinaHistoryWomen's health servicesHistoryChinaSocial life and customs1644-1912Electronic books.ChildbirthHistory.Women's health servicesHistory.362.198/400951Wu Yi-Li1965-1011414MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459233903321Reproducing women2343176UNINA