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A flourishing Yin: gender in China's medical history, 960-1665

Furth, Charlotte.

Year: c1999.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Medical History, Gender, and the Body

1 The Yellow Emperor's Body

2 The Development of Fuke in the Song Dynasty

3 Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine

4 Rethinking Fuke in the Ming Dynasty

5 To Benefit Yin: Fuke and Late Ming Medical Culture

6 "Nourishing Life": Ming Bodies of Generation and Longevity

7 A Doctor's Practice: Narratives of the Clinical Encounter in Late Ming Yangzhou

8 In and Out of the Family: Ming Women as Healing Experts

9 Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHARACTER GLOSSARY

INDEX

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Title:

A flourishing Yin : gender in China's medical history, 960-1665 Charlotte Furth.

Author:

Furth, Charlotte

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University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2008
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A flourishing Yin : gender in China's medical history, 960-1665 Charlotte Furth.
Furth, Charlotte
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04218

Subject Headings:

• Medicine, Chinese -- History
• Women -- Health and hygiene -- China -- History
• Body, Human -- Social aspects -- China -- History
• Sex role -- China -- History
• Obstetrics -- Social aspects -- China -- History
• Yin-yang

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