A Flourishing Yin

A Flourishing Yin
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 0520918878
ISBN-13 : 9780520918870
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Book Synopsis A Flourishing Yin by : Charlotte Furth

Download or read book A Flourishing Yin written by Charlotte Furth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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