A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-520-20829-2
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 343 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Philip E.Lilienthal Books

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furth, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Medical History, Gender, and the Body

I
The Yellow Emperor's Body
2
The Development of Puke in the Song Dynasty
3
Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine
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Rethinking Puke in the Ming Dynasty
5
To Benefit Yin: Puke and Late Ming Medical Culture
6
"Nourishing Life": Ming Bodies of Generation and
Longevity
7
A Doctor's Practice: Narratives of the Clinical Encounter
in Late Ming Yangzhou
8
In and Out of the Family: Ming Women as Healing
Experts
9
Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHARACTER GLOSSARY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Charlotte Furth is Professor of History, University of Southern California, author of Ting Wen-chiang: Science and China's New Culture (1970), and editor of The Limits of Change: Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China (1976).