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
people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of
contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were
women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting
conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently
dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late
imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive
perspective.
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