Reinterpreting menopause: cultural and philosophical issues (Record no. 81889)

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control field 0415915651
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0415915651
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Personal name Komesaroff, P.A. (ed)
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Title Reinterpreting menopause: cultural and philosophical issues
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1997
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Extent 280; ill.,bibls.; BookFind
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Paperback
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Summary, etc. In recent years, there has been extensive analysis of the health effects of menopause and the safety and efficacy of the various ""treatments"". There has also been rising concern about the appropriation and pathologization of menopause by medicine and its effects on women. At the same time, however, there has been relatively little reflection on the social, cultural, philosophical and ethical issues raised by both menopause itself and the way it has been handled by medicine.This text brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and political science and includes the voices and experiences of menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays, current thinking about medicine, society and the body is examined critically. Particular attention is given to the medical representations of menopause, biology and ageing, the history of medical approaches to women and the tensions between bio-medical models and other explanations of menopause. The issue of hormonal therapies is explored in the context of the connections between women, medicine, representation and cultural politics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element MENOPAUSE
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element WOMEN
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Personal name Rothfield, P. (ed)
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Personal name Daly, J. (ed)
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    National Library of Medicine     Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves 10/07/2006   WP 580 KOM HOM2001 29/09/2022 29/09/2022 Book
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