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Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China
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- Creator
- Yi-Li Wu
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520947610, 9786612732553, 9780520260689, 0520947614, 0520260686, 1282732552
- OCLC
- ocn502304085, ocn663967918
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and index.
- Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition -- Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing -- Function and structure in the female body -- An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage -- "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health
Subjects
- Childbirth -- China -- History.
- Women's health services -- History.
- Reproductive Medicine -- history -- China.
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- Gynecology -- history -- China.
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- History, Modern 1601- -- China.
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- Metaphor -- China.
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- China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912.