The Influence Of Social Factors In Ming Dynasty On The Discipline Of Gynecology And Obstetrics

The development of medicine is a phenomenon of social culture. It is the result of social activities under the certain culture and medicial practise. The medicine is influenced by many social factors such as politics. economics and culture, in which some factors would mainly decide at a certain period. The gynecology and obstetrics of Ming dynasty has this characters.The article concludes the main factors of Ming dynasty which influence on the gynecology and obstetrics through thorought search of much reference.It analyzes the objective effect of social factors in Ming dynasty. The conclusion discoveries the gynecology and obstetrics of Ming dynasty are obviously influenced by some humanistic factors between the doctors and patients such as the general mood of promiscuous led to excess of sexual intercourse damaged the function of kidney;The ways of abortion, contraception, sterilization had general been used;fedual ethical code had hindered the development of it. The major social thoughts, a confucication school of idealist philosophy of the Song and Ming dynasties. The philosophy of the mind.the philosophy of the real learning.had invisible formative influenced on it. The development of the gynecology and obstetrics in this period was restricted to the deepening of the gynecology theories and the development of obstetrics was ignored. The Ming dynasty was the turn period which has effected on the gynecology and obstetrics, especial the obstetrics in Qing dynasty and even today.