Reproducing women: medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China
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Main Author: Wu, Yi-Li 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2010
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references 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 -- Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy
Physical Description:xiii, 362 S. ill.
ISBN:9780520260689

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