{"product_id":"reproducing-women-medicine-metaphor-and-childbirth-in-late-imperial-china-hardcover","title":"Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYi-Li Wu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of \"medicine for women\"(\u003ci\u003efuke\u003c\/i\u003e), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a tremendously rich, exhaustively researched work. \u003ci\u003eReproducing Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering study that will undoubtedly become a standard reading on women's medicine in Chinese history.--Ruth Rogaski, author of \u003ci\u003eHygienic Modernity \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYi-Li Wu\u003c\/i\u003e is an independent scholar and a Center Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 378\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47630590214403,"sku":"9780520260689","price":1322.93,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/dGgyYldIZk9jWXV3QWdVQVI1VFRidz09.webp?v=1768463556","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-dk\/products\/reproducing-women-medicine-metaphor-and-childbirth-in-late-imperial-china-hardcover","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}