| #1467948 in Books | Yi Li Wu Wu Yi Li Yi Li Wu | 2010-08-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.25 x6.00l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 378 pages | Reproducing Women Medicine Metaphor and Childbirth in Late Imperial China||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| an interesting book about medical discourse of women in late imperial china|By Bibliophile504|I read this scholarly manuscript for the undergrad class "Women's Work in Premodern China" at Swarthmore College. Wu offers insight into how male doctors portrayed women in medical texts. As makes sense with the limitations of sources, the book is more about medical discourse than prac||
“A major addition to the growing literature on the history of gender and medicine in Imperial China.”
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 ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China | Yi-Li Wu. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
