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A Flourishing Yin - Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665 (Paperback, New)
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A Flourishing Yin - Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665 (Paperback, New)
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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.
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