中国古代女医及其成才模式初探

Briefly on China Ancient Female Physicians and Their Mode of Becoming a Useful Person

中国历史上能载入史册的女医家可谓凤毛麟角,文章从社会学的角度,具体从社会传统、教育制度和教育内容,师承授受的性别偏向等方面,结合医生的职业特点和当时医生个人荣誉的社会判断标准来进行综合分析,总结出以男性为主导的社会传统文化取向是造成女医稀少的根源;认为对女医的杰出贡献、成才模式及其社会背景的研究很值得发掘和探讨。

Throughout history, there are less female physicians in the society of ancient China. Why？ How to interpret this phenomenon？ However, the research concerned in this field is rather limited. Thus the purpose of this research was aimed at paraphrasing the doubtful phenomenon above. Based upon this idea, we had originally selected some representative female physicians to make analyses and investigation. The results indicated that the tradition concept - which man is dominating in the society may be the main reason to account for this social phenomenon. It was related as well to the education, the social consensus, the value judgment and the vocationally characteristic towards women. These may lead to numerous barriers for women to become real doctors. It seems that the finding in this research could provide more background information for the occupation of female. It may also stimulate the women to be more independent in the modern China.