Medicine for women in imperial China / edited by Angela Ki Che Leung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liang, Qizi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--China--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in early China also reflected religious and social issues. The authors, based in North America and East Asia, describe and analyze women's bodies, illnesses, and childbirth experiences according to a variety of archaeological materials and historical texts. The essays reveal a rich and complex picture of early views on the female medical and social body that have wide implications for other institutions of the period, and on medicine and women in the later imperial era.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

"Foreword"

"Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China"

"Medicine for Women in Early China: A Preliminary Survey"

"'Ten Times More Difficult to Treat': Female Bodies in Medical Texts from Early Imperial China"

"Childbirth in Early Imperial China"

"Depleted Men, Emotional Women: Gender and Medicine in the Ming Dynasty"

ZHANG Zhibin Gudai Zhongyi fuchanke jibingshi (A history of obstetrical and gynecological diseases in ancient China) Beijing: Zhongyi guzi chubanshe, 2000. 438 pp. RMB 22. ISBN 7-80013-923-9

"Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Medicine and Gender: Early Imperial China"

Index

Nan Nü Men, Women and Gender in China.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Bibliography of secondary sources on medicine and gender--early imperial China, by Charlotte Furth": p. [201]-208.

ISBN:

1-281-39954-X

9786611399542

90-474-0992-2

OCLC:

568279594