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A Flourishing Yin
副标题: Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665
ISBN: 9780520208292
出版社: University of California Press
出版年: 1999-3-5
页数: 343
定价: USD 33.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
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.
作者简介
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).
目录
The Yellow Emperors Body
19
The Development of Fuke in the Song Dynasty
59
Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine
94
Rethinking Fuke in the Ming Dynasty
134
To Benefit Yin Fuke and Late Ming Medical Culture
155
Nourishing Life Ming Bodies of Generation and Longevity
187
A Doctors Practice Narratives of the Clinical Encounter in Late Ming Yangzhou
224
In and Out of the Family Ming Women as Healing Experts
266
Conclusion
301
BIBLIOGRAPHY
313
CHARACTER GLOSSARY
331
INDEX
343
