Most existing research on the intersection between gender and Chinese medicine takes the
Huangdi neijing 黃き帝みかど內經(The Yellow Emperor's inner canon) as the starting point. This …

1. A Flourishing Yin opens a new and important chapter in the history of medicine and
gender in China between the Song and the Ming dynasties. Charlotte Furth's account traces …

Theory is a good servant but a tyrannical master, and the field of gender studies has been
plagued to an unusual degree by slavish obeisance to one or another fashionable theory. A …

This dissertation investigates the medical treatment of the female body in medieval China
based on the women-related sections of a pivotal work in the history of Chinese medicine …

A culmination of the author's 17 years of path-breaking research into the development of
women's medicine (fuke) in imperial China, this volume is a superb contribution to medical …

The last two chapters highlight two areas of major change in late imperial fuke: the notion
that childbirth resonates with cosmological processes and is inherently safe, and the rising …

This paper seeks a new approach to studying gender in pre-modern China through a
contextual study of Song medicine, in order to highlight the unstable aspects of gender …

This paper examines the interpretation of female bodies by male medical authors in post-
Han China, investigating medical theories and practices as reflected in the applied medical …

The article offers information on various revisions made by the author into his work"
Pregnancy, Childbirth and Infancy in Qing Dynasty in China" that was published in the" …

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