Medicine for Women in Imperial China

Medicine for Women in Imperial China
ISBN-10
9047409922
ISBN-13
9789047409922
Category
History
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2006-06-01
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Angela Ki Che Leung

Description

This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in early China also reflected religious and social issues. The authors, based in North America and East Asia, describe and analyze women's bodies, illnesses, and childbirth experiences according to a variety of archaeological materials and historical texts. The essays reveal a rich and complex picture of early views on the female medical and social body that have wide implications for other institutions of the period, and on medicine and women in the later imperial era.

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