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Another example of where we can see the relationship betwee gender and medicine is by analyzing the illustrations that are in the Yazuan yizong jinjian (Imperially-Commissioned Golden Mirror of Medical Learning) which was a textbook and guide to practicing medicine under the Qianlong emperor's Imperial Academy of Medicine. Most images in this book are depeicted as men, implying that there are culturally and historically constructed assumptions about the characteristics of men and women. There was a long standing belief that women's bodies were an imperfect variant of men's. There existed a type of visual androcentrism in Chinese medicine where there was a tendancy to use male figures to represnt the generic human body. This is seen as a result of the tradition in which men were used in generic situtiaons and women were used only in contexts spcifically genered as female.