Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China

377 Pages·2010·2.171 MB·English

by  Yi-Li Wu

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Reproducing Women
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Reproducing Women
Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth
in Late Imperial China
Yi-Li Wu
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Contents
ListofIllustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. LateImperialFukeandtheLiterateMedicalTradition 15
2. AmateurasArbiter:PopularFukeManualsintheQing 54
3. FunctionandStructureintheFemaleBody 84
4. AnUncertainHarvest:PregnancyandMiscarriage 120
5. “BornLikeaLamb”:TheDiscourseofCosmologically
ResonantChildbirth 147
6. ToGenerateandTransform:StrategiesforPostpartum
Health 188
Epilogue:Body,Gender,andMedicalLegitimacy 224
Notes 237
Glossary 311
Bibliography 319
Index 343
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Illustrations
table
1. MembersoftheChenfamily(1127–ca.1900) 32
figures
1. ApagefromTransmittedSecretsofWomen’sMedicine
fromtheBambooGrove(Zhulinfukemichuan),1890
edition 61
2. WomangivingbirthafterprayingtotheBodhisattva
Guanyin,LotusSutra(Saddharmapundarikasutra),
Dunhuang,ca.tenthcentury 66
3. Titlepage,TreatiseonEasyChildbirth(Dashengbian),
ca.1850 80
4. DiagramofinternalorgansfromLiChan,AnIntroduction
toMedicine(Yixuerumen),1666edition 102
5. DiagramofinternalorgansfromZhangJiebin,Illustrated
Supplementto“TheInnerClassicExplicatedbyTopic”
(Leijingtuyi),1624edition 103
6. Instructionsforsafechildbirth,expandededitionof
TreatiseonEasyChildbirth(ZengguangDashengpian),
1888 149
7. CharlesBell’sengravingofasoldierwithtetanusfrom
TheAnatomyandPhilosophyofExpressionasConnected
withtheFineArts,1847edition 195
8. Womansufferingfromabscessesduringthepostpartum
period,ImperiallyCompiledGoldenMirrorofMedical
Learning(Yuzuanyizongjinjian),1742 198
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