Yi-Li Wu is an independent scholar and a Center Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.
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.
發表於2024-12-26
Reproducing Women 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
圖書標籤: 醫療史 女性 海外中國研究 身體 海外漢學 曆史學 gender Gender
嚴謹之作,到瞭結論纔進入理論層麵的發揮。主要在反駁Charlotte Furth對中國身體的觀點。
評分傳送 https://1drv.ms/b/s!Ajo4WHjuTR-hghdq5iVV06tNGpGQ 三星半。材料紮實嚴謹、個案詳細是優點,但理論構建以及觀點錶達實在太晦澀瞭,結論在我看來有些虛——想正麵剛一發費奶奶,然而並沒有說服我
評分文章結構是從醫書的流通和自證閤法性開始,再講婦女的產前,生產和產後護理. 在結論中,不同與Furth的論點(她把黃帝內經中中國古代身體觀抽象為androgynous entity, 同時宋代以來越來越強調gender difference,從而產生婦科), Wu 引入語言學的inflectional morphology來解釋中國醫學的身體觀—an infinitive body, being conjugated into male and female, into the young and old, depending on different circumstances.
評分算是把我想讀的讀完瞭吧。有啓發的就是醫療文本分專業和業餘兩方麵來談那兩章。醫學書籍的編纂以及印刷流傳。“作為業餘者的仲裁者”,業餘者卻更擁有話語權。一是專業醫生往往是科考失敗者,富有學識的業餘者具有更好的教育背景,更具權威性。二是醫學最終麵嚮大眾。
評分整本書充滿瞭大量的個案,觀點不免被冗餘的故事淹沒。可以看做是跟Furth奶奶的對話,認為宋之後的女性身體除瞭涉及分娩時候,與男性並無二緻。結論有詭辯的感覺且太富有解構性。另外,第二章顯得很湊數,且總體文字艱澀。
Reproducing Women 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載