The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural PerspectivesRuth Formanek Routledge, 13 พ.ค. 2013 - 320 หน้า In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives. The result is an admirably comprehensive study that not only charts the premodern meanings of menopause, but proceeds to examine menopause from current biomedical, endocrinological, culutral, and psychological perspectives. Ample attention is give to the psychosocial influences on menopause and to cross-cultural variations in the experience of, and life adjustments that follow, menopause. Societal and familial attitudes toward menopausal women are also explored through an examination of women in classical and modern literature. Clinical contributions review psychoanalytic perspectives on menopause, elucidate the individual meanings of the menopausal experience uncovered in therapy, and consider male views of menopausal women. Collectively, the contributors to this volume remedy the scant attention menopause has heretofore received in the psychological and psychotherapeutic literature. They not only explore the range of issues associated with menopause, but address these issues in the context of the various myths and superstitions about menopause that have endured over the centuries. Essential reading for students of human development, gender issues, and women's studies, The Meanings of Menopause is, for helping professionals, an invaluable source book on a life event fraught with psychological significance. |
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... blood , which required periodic discharge ; but in the aging woman , the blood vessels become rigid and can no longer discharge the accumulated blood . It was feared that the accumulated blood would now rise toward the brain and cause ...
... blood not discharged might wreak havoc in the brain . In the 19th century , obsolete views of amenorrhea were elaborated and ultimately merged with newer ideas . One of these newer , socially constructed ideas asserted the existence of ...
... blood . Physiological and clinical observations could be explained by the presence or absence of the four humors . What interests us most is Galen's view of blood . The ancients thought that each humor could be present in abundance or ...
... blood . However , in cases of suppression , when the vessels of the uterus had become tenacious and blocked passage of the blood , " the plethorick Blood is very often discharged by the Nostrils or the Lungs . . . " ( p . 40 ) , or a ...
... blood to break through them . Thus , nature has wisely ordered that the menses should decrease with increasing age . These views of the menopause clearly predate its later medicaliza- tion : Since it is as nature ordered , " no very bad ...
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II Psychosocial CrossCultural and Research Perspectives | 78 |
III Endocrinology Clinical and Experiential Studies and Literary Aspects | 176 |
Author Index | 297 |
Subject Index | 311 |
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The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives Ruth Formanek ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2013 |