{"title":"Childbirth in Early Imperial China","authors":"Jen-der Lee","doi":"10.1163/156852605775248658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156852605775248658","url":null,"abstract":"By the eighth century, medical texts had come to agree that an expecting mother should take herbal medicine in the last month of pregnancy to ensure a quick and safe delivery. Delivery charts, previously separated for different purposes, were integrated into one chart with twelve sub-charts for each month of the year. Women usually took vertical positions during delivery and were most likely supported under the arms by midwives. Ritual techniques and manual manipulations were applied to solve complications such as breech birth. The former often implied resonant relations between the baby, its mother and her husband, while the latter sometimes elicited criticism from male doctors as unnecessary interventions. The new mother would be restrained from social contact in the first month after delivery, because of both her need to rest and the fear of pollution. Friends and relatives, however, would bring over precious and nutritious food to \"nourish her body,\" said the medical texts, \"not just to celebrate the child.\"","PeriodicalId":413325,"journal":{"name":"Medicine for Women in Imperial China","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128806553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicine for Women in Early China: A Preliminary Survey","authors":"Robin D. S. Yates","doi":"10.1163/156852605775248702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156852605775248702","url":null,"abstract":"This study reviews aspects of the history of medicine for women from approximately the third century BCE to the tenth century CE. It focuses on therapies during the months of pregnancy and childbirth as recorded in newly discovered texts, on the developing pharmacopeia, and on ritual procedures. It argues that acupuncture was used only rarely on pregnant women and that many cultural and religious beliefs and practices, including those drawn from the Buddhist, Daoist, and popular traditions, influenced procedures undertaken in preparation for and during the birth process.","PeriodicalId":413325,"journal":{"name":"Medicine for Women in Imperial China","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130590251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ZHANG Zhibin [CHINESE TEXT]. Gudai Zhongyi fuchanke jibingshi [CHINESE TEXT] (A history of obstetrical and gynecological diseases in ancient China) Beijing: Zhongyi guzi chubanshe, 2000. 438 pp. RMB 22. ISBN 7-80013-923-9","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047409922_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047409922_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413325,"journal":{"name":"Medicine for Women in Imperial China","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125400293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Ten Times More Difficult to Treat” Female Bodies in Medical Texts from Early Imperial China","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047409922_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047409922_005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413325,"journal":{"name":"Medicine for Women in Imperial China","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123576731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China","authors":"A. K. Leung","doi":"10.1163/156852605775248676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156852605775248676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413325,"journal":{"name":"Medicine for Women in Imperial China","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132706157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depleted Men, Emotional Women: Gender and Medicine in the Ming Dynasty","authors":"Marta Hanson","doi":"10.1163/156852605775248694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156852605775248694","url":null,"abstract":"In her new book Vernacular Bodies, Mary Fissell asks questions broadly relevant for the history of women, gender, and medicine anywhere. How did ordinary people understand the female body in early modern England, and what are the broader implications of changes in their understanding? She used vernacular sources—ballads, jokes, images, pamphlets, broadsides, and popular medical manuals—instead of elite medical treatises to demonstrate how women’s bodies had became a cultural site for the articulation and discussion of historical changes, specifically the Protestant Reformation and the English Civil War.1 Changes in the meanings of women’s bodies did not just reflect historic moments, but rather these interpretations of female bodies were the way ordinary people made meaning of and worked out the crises in gender relations integral to both periods.2 The “world turned upside down” during the English Civil War, for instance,","PeriodicalId":413325,"journal":{"name":"Medicine for Women in Imperial China","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134132104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}