medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China Wu, Yi-Li creator text bibliography cau Berkeley University of California Press 2010 monographic eng

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362 p. : ill. Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition -- Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing -- Function and structure in the female body -- An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage -- "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health. HKBU library Yi-Li Wu. YT2025 M10 Childbirth China History Women's health services History Reproductive Medicine history China Gynecology history China History, Modern 1601- China Metaphor China China Social life and customs 1644-1912 RG518 W959 R 2010 9780520260689 0520260686 SDU 100120