Medicine For Women In Imperial China
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Medicine For Women In Imperial China
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Author : Angela Ki Che Leung
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006-06-01
Medicine For Women In Imperial China written by Angela Ki Che Leung and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with History categories.
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.
Reproducing Women
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Author : Yi-Li Wu
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-08-11
Reproducing Women written by Yi-Li Wu and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-11 with History categories.
This 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"(fuke), 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.
Chinese Women In The Imperial Past
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Author : Harriet Zurndorfer
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-08-22
Chinese Women In The Imperial Past written by Harriet Zurndorfer and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-22 with History categories.
The present volume is the result of a Leiden University workshop on women in imperial China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender studies have attracted more and more attention, and this book is one of the first efforts to focus on major aspects of this subject. It covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including bibliography, demography, history, legal studies, literature, history of medicine, and philosophy. Chinese Women in the Imperial Past can rightly be seen as connected with the new Brill journal NAN NÜ, Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China, which was founded to provide the scholarly community with a lasting forum in which the subject of Chinese women and gender can be dealt with in its own right.
A Flourishing Yin
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Author : Charlotte Furth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-03-05
A Flourishing Yin written by Charlotte Furth and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-05 with History categories.
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.
Ancient Healing For Modern Women
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Author : Xiaolan Zhao
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-05-26
Ancient Healing For Modern Women written by Xiaolan Zhao and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-26 with Family & Relationships categories.
One of Canada's most trusted and beloved health practitioners introduces American women to the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine and the time-tested practices that have helped optimize physical and emotional health for centuries. Since establishing her practice in Canada twelve years ago, Dr. Xiaolan Zhao has treated thousands of women suffering from fatigue, PMS, infertility, depression, cancer, menopausal symptoms and other gynecological disorders - health problems that are all too common in the West but less so in China, where traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been an integral part of women's lives for thousands of years. As a physician originally trained in Western medicine who later took up the practice of TCM, Dr. Zhao has seen how effective the Chinese approach is for her patients, and her book will help American women incorporate its wisdom and practices in our lives. Sharing stories from her own life and the lives of her patients, Dr. Zhao shows that we have nothing to reject about our feminine selves, and explains how we can develop new relationships with our bodies and our emotions. There is so much every woman can do in terms of ongoing and preventative self-care to improve her health and vitality and prevent illness. By making simple changes in diet, exercise routine, sex life and the way we deal with stress and our emotions, we can profoundly improve our health now and into the future.
Ancient Healing For Modern Women
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Author : Xiaolan Zhao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Ancient Healing For Modern Women written by Xiaolan Zhao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Alternative medicine categories.
Women In Early Imperial China
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Author : Bret Hinsch
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2010-08-16
Women In Early Imperial China written by Bret Hinsch and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-16 with History categories.
After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and women's lives gradually altered to conform to them. And under the new political system, the rulers' consorts and their families obtained powerful roles that allowed women unprecedented influence in the highest level of government. Recognized as the leading work in the field, this introductory survey offers the first sustained history of women in the early imperial era. Now in a revised edition that incorporates the latest scholarship and theoretical approaches, the book draws on extensive primary and secondary sources in Chinese and Japanese to paint a remarkably detailed picture of the distant past. Bret Hinsch's introductory chapters orient the nonspecialist to early imperial Chinese society; subsequent chapters discuss women's roles from the multiple perspectives of kinship, wealth and work, law, government, learning, ritual, and cosmology. An enhanced array of line drawings, a Chinese-character glossary, and extensive notes and bibliography enhance the author's discussion. Historians and students of gender and early China alike will find this book an invaluable overview.
Ancient Healing For Modern Women
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Author : Xiaolan Zhao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-05
Ancient Healing For Modern Women written by Xiaolan Zhao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with categories.
Dr. Zhao has treated thousands of women suffering from fatigue, PMS, infertility, depression, cancer, menopausal symptoms, and other gynecological disorders -- health problems that are all too common in the West but less so in China, where Traditional Chinese Med. (TCM) has been an integral part of women¿s lives for thousands of years. As a physician originally trained in Western med. who later took up the practice of TCM, Dr. Zhao has seen how effective the Chinese approach is for her patients. Her book will help American women incorporate its wisdom and practices in their lives. There is so much every woman can do at every phase of her life in terms of ongoing and preventative self-care to improve her health and vitality and prevent illness. Illus.
Traditional Chinese Medicine For Women
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Author : Xiaolan Zhao
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2006
Traditional Chinese Medicine For Women written by Xiaolan Zhao and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Alternative medicine categories.
In this inspirational book Xiaolan Zhao, internationally-renowned practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), shows us how making simple changes to our diet and lifestyle we can profoundly improve our health now and into the future. Since establishing her practice in Canada in 1993, Xiaolan Zhao has treated thousands of women suffering from fatigue, PMS, infertility, depression, menopausal symptoms and various gynaecological disorders - health problems that are all too common in the West but less so in China, where TCM has been an integral part of women's lives for thousands of years. As a physician originally trained in Western medicine who later earned a degree in TCM, Xiaolan has seen how effective the Chinese approach is for her patients and here shares its wisdom and practices. Sharing remarkable stories from her own life and the lives of her patients, she shows how we can develop new relationships with our bodies and our emotions and how through preventative self-care we can improve our health, increase vitality and prevent illness.
History Of Medicine In Chinese Culture A In 2 Volumes
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Author : Boying Ma
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2020-02-20
History Of Medicine In Chinese Culture A In 2 Volumes written by Boying Ma and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Medical categories.
This book set covers the last 3000 years of Chinese Medicine, as a broadly flowing river, from its source to its mouth. It takes the story from the very beginnings in proto-scientific China to the modern age, with a wealth of historical and cultural detail. It is unique in presenting many anecdotes, sayings, and excerpts from the traditional classics.The content is organized into four parts. Part one focuses on the medical activities in Chinese primitive society and the characteristic features of the witchcraft stage of medicine. Part two traces the progress of Chinese medicine as it entered the stage of natural philosophy. It also discusses how other aspects of philosophy, religion, and politics influenced Chinese medical theory and practice at the time. Chinese medicine, having a kind of social existence, was also impacted by the natural and social environment, and multiple cultural factors. Some of these factors are discussed in Part three. The last part concludes by examining the cultural process of Chinese medicine in history and offers a glimpse into the future of Chinese Medicine.