A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665
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...
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"Highly original, and sophisticatedly and convincingly argued. This book is one of the best studies in any language of how Chinese medicine evolved intellectually and socially in the course of the imperial period."—Francesca Bray, author of Technology and Gender
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Medical History, Gender, and the Body11The Yellow Emperor's Body192The Development of Fuke in the Song Dynasty593Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine944Rethinking Fuke in the Ming Dynasty1345To Benefit Yin: Fuke and Late Ming Medical Culture1556"Nourishing Life": Ming Bodies of Generation and Longevity1877A Doctor's Practice: Narratives of the Clinical Encounter in Late Ming Yangzhou2248In and Out of the Family: Ming Women as Healing Experts2669Conclusion301Bibliography313Character Glossary331Index343
