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Female Medical Workers in Ancient China

ZHENG Jin-sheng 郑金生

The China Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing

Little represented in history, records are found of less than one hundred female workers in China. The inferior social status of women may account for their scant representation in history, but the need for female medical workers in care of women themselves proved great. The relative lack of formal training (except in the royal palace of the Ming Dynasty , to be discussed later) limited the quality of their service, yet the few records collected reveal an active involvement of women in ancient Chinese medicine.

Social Background

Judging form existing documents, there appears to have been no apparent discrimination against, female physicians in ancient times. In the early stages of medical development in China, the classes were often presented under the names of deities, and female deities were included among them. A famous example was Su Nu素女(Plain Girl); the two classics of Pulse Diagnosis of Su Nu素女脉诀 and Classic of Su Nu素女经 were known under her name, the latter being a book on chamber technique (sexology).1

Many stories passed from dynasty to dynasty with approbation for the successful treatment of queens by female doctors who were then conferred with titles of honor. A certain Madam Feng in the Song dynasty, for instance, was conferred the title of An Guo Lady 安国夫人 (the Lady Who Brought Relief to the Nation ) after she cured the suffering of the Empress Dowager. Her descendants used to boast of their skills by citing this story.2 Also recorded in history were clinics and drugstores owner by female doctors. One of the reasons that competent female doctors earned respect was simply because they were female." How could a female be working as unless she had some unique life-saving skill?" Taking advantage of such psychology, two famous families in the Ming dynasty ,the Jins 金 and the Tangs 汤, fabricated myths of prominent female physicians in their families. Among their ancestors, "two girls were born capable of writing such books as Gynecological Prescriptions (NuKe yifang 女科医方)，" they said ,and this easily won them respect.3

As indicated by many historical documents, outstanding female doctors enjoyed respect equal to their male counterparts. For example, a detailed account was engraved on a stone tablet of a certain Madam Han 韩医妇 in the Ming dynasty who cured cases of dysphagia.4 Theories based on the treatment of three cases of gynecological disorders by the famous female doctor, Li Guiyuan 李闺媛 ,were recorded in detail in literary sketches of the Qing dynasty.5 Despite all these, however, the female doctors were far less represented compared with their male counterparts.

The cause of this exclusion should be sought in the social institution prevailing at that time assigning women a certain social role. The "three obediences and four virtues"(三从四德) were the standards expected of women in ancient China .In the past, the labor was divided in such a way that "men are in charge of external affairs while women are in charge of internal affairs." As a result, the social roles of the female were always supporting ones, roles subordinate to the male roles. And that is why women were never able to give full play to their talents in the fields of science and technology, with medicine being no exception.

Nevertheless, unlike astronomy and geography, medicine has a much greater social dimension and, owing to social demand , female doctors have always been indispensable. To protect the integrity of the imperial harem, specialized female doctors were appointed at least as early as the Han dynasty .6 As decreed by the Ming government , "(male) doctors are not allowed to enter the palace of imperial concubines and, in case of disease, the concubines shall be given herbs as considered appropriate based on their complaints." 7 In view of cases of adultery between imperial concubines and external officals in late Yuan dynasty, the first emperor of the Ming dynasty issued thisdecree, prohibiting male doctors to edter the palace of the imperial concubines . From then on, Selected maids and eunuchs were trained to take care of the concubines and, sometimes, midwives were called in from outside as the need arose.

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