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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... diseases which show a rise in incidence after menopause - cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis . Only continued research will tell . Medical and nonmedical views were expressed at the September 1989 meeting on menopause cosponsored ...
... disease " or " endocrinopathy " in need of medical management . Nonmedical researchers have attempted to bridge the epistemological split in research between the medical concentration on an endocrine theory of menopause and behavioral ...
... Diseases . . . The author was a then - famous physician and mathematician , John Freind , whose ideas on menopause are summarized in chapter 1 of this book . I continued my browsing and buying , and soon my collection on women's health ...
... diseases and conditions ; and ( 4 ) an understanding of menopause is critical for both men and women because it will enhance ... disease . Goodman pays special attention to recent large - scale popula- tion studies of middle - aged women ...
... disease " ( Utian , 1987 ) . In this book , the term climacteric will refer to " that phase in the aging process of a woman marking the transition from the reproductive stage of life to the non - reproductive phase " ( Utian and Serr ...
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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 |