CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS = ⅸ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = xi Introduction Medical History, Gender, and the Body = 1 1 The Yellow Emperoe''s Body = 19 2 The Development of Fuke in the Song Dynasty = 59 3 Gestation and Birth in Song Medicine = 94 4 Rethinking Fuke in the Ming Dynasty = 134 5 To Benefit Yin : Fuke and late Ming Medical Cluture = 155 6 "Nourishing Life" : Ming Bodies of Generation and Longevity = 187 7 A Doctor''s Practice : Narratives of the Clinical Encounter in Late Ming Yangzhou = 224 8 In and Out of the Family : Ming Women as Healing Experts = 266 9 Conclusion = 301 BIBLIOGRAPHY = 313 CHARACTER GLOSSARY = 331 INDEX = 343