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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.

Childbirth --- Women's health services --- History. --- China --- Social life and customs --- 17th century. --- 18th century. --- 19th century. --- childbearing. --- childbirth. --- china. --- chinese culture. --- chinese history. --- conception. --- cultural history. --- dangers of childbirth. --- development of medicine. --- fuke. --- health issues. --- historical periods. --- historical perspective. --- ideological issues. --- late imperial china. --- late imperial medicine. --- medical writings. --- medicine. --- miscarriage. --- nonfiction. --- pregnancy. --- qing dynasty. --- reproductive diseases. --- women. --- womens bodies. --- womens issues. --- womens medicine. --- History