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

• Autore: Wu Yi-Li <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.198/400951
• Soggetto topico: Childbirth - China - History; Women's health services - History
• Soggetto geografico: China Social life and customs 1644-1912
• Soggetto non controllato: 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; childbearing; childbirth; china; chinese culture; chinese history; conception; cultural history; dangers of childbirth; development of medicine; fuke; health issues; historical periods; historical perspective; ideological issues; late imperial china; late imperial medicine; medical writings; medicine; miscarriage; nonfiction; pregnancy; qing dynasty; reproductive diseases; women; womens bodies; womens issues; womens medicine
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reproducing women
• ISBN: 1-282-73255-2; 9786612732553; 0-520-94761-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247974903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno