S1E3: What Are Our Health Expectations?

THIS EPISODE: A large part of our relationship with our bodies and our health is rooted in expectations, in turn, these expectations are often shaped by given social, cultural or medical constructs.

In this episode we touch on how we define our health expectations and how the broad and inclusive way Chinese medicine sees us, can help expand the lens through which we see and experience ourselves.

SHOW NOTES:

During the Ming dynasty (1368 to 1644) women’s role in Chinese society was very clearly defined. The duties of women of the upper echelons of society - these were the wives and daughters of scholars and men of official rank - was to produce an heir who would carry the family legacy. In other words, a son.

Meanwhile, they would bind their daughter’s feet and teach them the ways of proper conduct through the recitation of poetry.

One such woman was TAN YUNXIAN – who some of you may have read about in LISA SEE'S New York times best seller “ LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN”. Tan Yunxian lived from 1461 to 1556 (Mid-Ming dynasty) and, contrary to the norms of the time and thanks to the training she received from her grandparents, became a doctor.

She is the author of Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor - the first written account of the application of medical care by a woman doctor.

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