Textbook Discounter: Medicine: A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665 (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)

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A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665 (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)
	Author: Charlotte Furth Publisher: University of California Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$25.95~~ Buy Used: $9.70 You Save: $16.25 (63%) New (13) Used (18) from $9.70 Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 468027 Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 343 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3 Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1 ISBN: 0520208293 Dewey Decimal Number: 610.951 EAN: 9780520208292 ASIN: 0520208293 Publication Date: March 5, 1999 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Good softcover. Text contains minor underlining/marking; otherwise pages are clean. Covers show light edgewear, small crunch at top of spine.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description 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.