A flourishing Yin : gender in China's medical history, 960-1665
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A flourishing Yin : gender in China's medical history, 960-1665
（A Philip E. Lilienthal book）
University of California Press, c1999
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780520208285
Description
This is a study of gender in Chinese medicine, contextualizing it within Chinese history. The book examines the rich tradition of "fuke", or medicine for women, over the 700 years between the Song and the end of the Ming dynasty. Using a variety of sources, the book explores evolving understandings of fertility and menstruation, gestation and childbirth, sexuality and gynaecological disorders. The author 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. The text explores how women as healers and as patients both participated in the dominant medical culture and sheltered a female sphere of expertise centred on, but not limited to, gestation and birth. The analysis of the relationship of language, text and practice reaches beyond the immediate subject to address theoretical problems that arise when we look at the epistemological foundations of our knowledge of the body and its history.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520208292
Description
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 of fuke, 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, and belles 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 patients both participated in the dominant medical culture and sheltered a female sphere of expertise centered on, but not limited to, gestation and birth. Ultimately, her analysis of the relationship of language, text, and practice reaches beyond her immediate subject to address theoretical problems that arise when we look at the epistemological foundations of our knowledge of the body and its history.
Table 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
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