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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... Medicine Rare Book Room ; Susan Alon of the Yale University Historical Library ; Gordon E. Mestler of the Medical Library of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn , Janet Wagner and Joyce Payne of the ...
... medicines . It is possible , of course , that estrogens will indeed protect most women against the dangers of those diseases which show a rise in incidence after menopause - cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis . Only continued ...
... medicine . Physicians elaborated on illnesses that were said to befall women at both puberty and menopause ; they perfected operations such as ovariotomy and hysterectomy , which were recommended as cures for all " female troubles ...
... medicine , women assumed responsibility for illness in the family . Advice and assistance were available from kin and community , and newspapers and alma- nacs offered medical advice . Yet medical practice was still grounded in oral ...
... medicines were necessary and the use of " emmenagogues , " which aimed to prolong the menstrual discharge was considered foolish and hurtful . According to another midwifery manual ( by an " American Practi- tioner , " 1826 ) , however ...
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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 |