Flourishing Yin - Gender in China''s Medical History: 9601665

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List of contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Medical History, Gender, and the Body

I
The Yellow Emperor's Body
2
The Development of Puke in the Song Dynasty
3
Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine
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Rethinking Puke in the Ming Dynasty
5
To Benefit Yin: Puke and Late Ming Medical Culture
6
"Nourishing Life": Ming Bodies of Generation and
Longevity
7
A Doctor's Practice: Narratives of the Clinical Encounter
in Late Ming Yangzhou
8
In and Out of the Family: Ming Women as Healing
Experts
9
Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHARACTER GLOSSARY
INDEX

About the author

Charlotte Furth is Professor of History, University of Southern California, author of Ting Wen-chiang: Science and China's New Culture (1970), and editor of The Limits of Change: Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China (1976).

Summary

A study of gender in the history of Chinese medicine. The book examines the tradition of "fuke", or medicine for women, evolving understandings of fertility, menstruation, gestation, childbirth, sexuality and gynaecology, and women's participation and expertise in the medical culture.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Furth, Furth Charlotte
• Assisted by: Charlotte Furth (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.1999
• EAN: 9780520208292
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20829-2
• No. of pages: 343
• Series: Philip E.Lilienthal Books; Philip E.Lilienthal Books
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, History, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Women, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Gender studies: women, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General