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| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | 'Imperfect Conceptions': Medical Theories and Birth Defects in Late Imperial China | 13 |
| Elite Medical Theories in Late Imperial China | 16 | |
| Medical Discourse and the Consolidation of the Lineage under the Qing | 26 | |
| The Regulation of Desire: Sex, Blood and Semen | 32 | |
| The Dangers of Excess: Marital Harmony and Cosmological Consonance | 43 | |
| The Torments of Imagination: Maternal Imprints and Ghostly Foetuses | 51 | |
| Epilogue: Lineage, 'Race' and Reproduction during the late Qing | 58 | |
| 3 | 'Defective Genes': The Regulation of Reproduction in Republican China | 64 |
| The Medicalisation and Public Display of Monsters | 64 | |
| Nationalism, Degeneration and Soft Inheritance | 68 | |
| 'The Intermediate Sex': Embryology, Hermaphroditism and Gender Distinctions | 74 | |
| Teratology, Recapitulation and Heredity | 81 | |
| Conception, Imagination and Natural Retribution | 97 | |
| The Improvement of the Race: The Spread of Eugenic Discourse | 104 | |
| 4 | 'Inferior Births': Eugenics in the People's Republic of China | 119 |
| Air, Water and Food: The Foetus and the Environment | 124 | |
| Blood, Genes and DNA: The Inheritance of Social Deviance | 134 | |
| 'Superior Births': The Science of Foetal Education | 146 | |
| Liminal Figures: The Medical Semiology of Monsters | 156 | |
| Eugenic Laws and Reproductive Health | 160 | |
| Social and Ethical Implications of Population Policies | 175 | |
| 5 | Conclusion | 184 |
| Bibliography | 187 | |
| Character List | 219 | |
| Index | 223 |
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William Stephens
reviewed Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China on July 06, 2020
Imperfect Conceptions
I only gave it a low rating because it bored me a little. It's my own fault; I've read similar books before and so it seemed a little preaching-to-the-choir for me. But it is very in depth, well-researched, and a pretty easy read if you're into the subject matter. This isn't a vegetarian propaganda book, either, it goes beyond animal ethics to problems with grocery stores, food distribution, and health issues. It's basically a good source of information for the average person who isn't aware of the aforementioned issues.
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