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Author Johnson, Tina Phillips, 1968-

Title Childbirth in republican China : delivering modernity / Tina Phillips Johnson
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 223 pages)
Contents Missionaries and modernity -- Reproduction theory : modern childbirth and modern motherhood -- The midwifery profession -- National reproduction in republican China -- Epilogue : reproduction in twentieth-century China
Summary "Childbirth is a window into the shifting cultural and political landscape of a particular place and time. Much can be learned about a culture by examining its treatment of women and children. More importantly, reproduction encompasses both a moral and a social imperative; the continuation of a society rests on childbirth. In imperial China, securing the continuation of the family line was the utmost filial act, with the family as the basic organizing unit of society and the state. Yi-li Wu noted that "childbirth was the warp on which the fabric of society was woven" in imperial China. I argue that childbirth remains so, and alterations in how childbirth is viewed and conducted merely point to larger ideological visions of social and political structures. Li Xiaojiang asserted in the preface to her anthropological study of modernization and traditional childbirth customs in rural China in the 1990s that "because of its close relationship with levels of health and disease, birth is one of the keys to understanding and constructing women's lives, but our field of vision has been blind to it." Opening one's eyes to the rich material surrounding childbirth, the researcher is made aware that legislation regarding reproduction and birth, maternal and child health, and the general treatment of women and children illuminate the relative value or disregard a people carry for those women and children."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Childbirth -- China -- History -- 20th century
Maternal and infant welfare -- China -- History -- 20th century
Maternal health services -- China -- History -- 20th century
Motherhood -- China -- History -- 20th century
Social sciences.
Health.
Natural Childbirth -- history
Parturition
Delivery, Obstetric -- history
History, 20th Century
Infant Welfare -- history
Maternal Health Services -- history
Maternal Welfare -- history
Social Conditions -- history
Social Sciences
Health
social sciences.
medicines (material)
health.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Childbirth
Maternal and infant welfare
Maternal health services
Motherhood
SUBJECT China https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002681
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739987
ISBN 9780739164426
0739164422
1283213559
9781283213554
9786613213556
6613213551