User:Aljgm6/Tan Yunxian

Status of female physicians in Ming China[edit]
Quite different from their male counterparts of ancient China, women did not hone their skills by studying with masters nor did they have the purpose or goal in mind to set up their own clinics after their apprenticeship. For females, family training was the standard mode of education. While women were quite skilled in their medical techniques, they rarely made any theoretical additions to the field. Unlike the male doctors of the times, women received medical training in order to assist the males in their family by doing some “supporting work.” After practicing medicine it is said that "she always get wonderful therapeutic effects in treating those females who refuse to see a male physician". Women in Ming China could not ask their male doctors about certain medical conditions.

'''There is no evidence of female doctors being discriminated against at this time. Female doctors' names are listed in the Deities where medical development was published. Although females had their accounts taken in and women were successful in the medical field because male doctors could not look at a female patient, women midwives were needed, and female physicians needed more representation. Female doctors had an advantage in working with just women patients because they knew the nature of their bodies, and many had already birthed children. They knew how things happened and if something was different and needed additional care. Obstetrics and gynecology were the only ways women could practice medicine. Everything else was hard for women to be taken seriously. '''