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Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China Yi-Li Wu
Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
Yi-Li Wu
Examines the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of 'medicine for women' (fuke), this book explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. It analyzes the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases.
378 pages, 8 b/w photographs
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 11, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520260689 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 378 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 242 × 36 mm · 656 g |