Flourishing Yin Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665

Name: Flourishing Yin Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665
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ISBN: 9780520208292

ISBN-10: 0520208293

ISBN-13: 9780520208292

Edition: 1999

Authors: Charlotte Furth

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This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition offuke, or medicine for women, over the seven hundred years between the Song and the end of the Ming dynasty. Using medical classics, popular handbooks, case histories, andbelles lettres, it explores evolving understandings of fertility and menstruation, gestation and childbirth, sexuality, and gynecological disorders. Furth locates medical practice in the home, where knowledge was not the monopoly of the learned physician and male doctors had to negotiate the class and gender boundaries of everyday life. Women as healers and as…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Medical History, Gender, and the Body



The Yellow Emperor's Body



The Development of Fuke in the Song Dynasty



Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine



Rethinking Fuke in the Ming Dynasty



To Benefit Yin: Fuke and Late Ming Medical Culture



"Nourishing Life": Ming Bodies of Generation and Longevity



A Doctor's Practice: Narratives of the Clinical Encounter in Late Ming Yangzhou



In and Out of the Family: Ming Women as Healing Experts



Conclusion


Bibliography


Character Glossary


Index