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This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in early China also reflected religious and social issues. The authors, based in North America and East Asia, describe and analyze women's bodies, illnesses, and childbirth experiences according to a variety of archaeological materials and historical texts. The essays reveal a rich and complex picture of early views on the female medical and social body that have wide implications for other institutions of the period, and on medicine and women in the later imperial era.

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• Full title: Medicine for Women in Imperial China
• Author: A. K. C. Leung, Angela Ki Che Leung
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• EAN: 9789004151963
• ISBN: 9004151966
• ID: 13314218
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 157 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: April 2006

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