Article ID: CBB959202269

The Menstruating Womb (2016)

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This paper analyses body and gender in East Asian medicine through a case study of Hŏ Chun’s 許浚 Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine (Tongŭi pogam 東醫寶鑑, first ed. 1613). While Hŏ Chun’s Chinese sources classified menstrual ailments as a disease of women, Hŏ created a new nosological model that defined menstrual ailments as maladies of the ‘womb’, an internal body part found in men and women alike. I read back and forth between the Precious Mirror and the Chinese sources that Hŏ Chun cites to analyse the textual and intellectual processes by which he constructed his androgynous, menstruating womb. My findings engage with scholarship on the history of East Asian medical exchanges as well as with scholarship on menstruation, sex, and gender in world medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Lin, Shing-ting
Zhang, Tiansheng
Esperanza, Anabella
Magdalena S. Sánchez
Linton, David
Read, Sara
Concepts
Menstruation
Medicine and gender
Medicine
Women in medicine
East Asia, civilization and culture
Women and health
Time Periods
Medieval
20th century
Early modern
Ancient
20th century, early
19th century
Places
China
England
United States
Tibet
Great Britain
Spain
Institutions
Medical Women's Federation (Great Britain)
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