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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... physical illness at menopause , the message from an ongoing , large - scale epidemiological study is that " the biological event , cessation of menses , has almost no impact on subsequent perceived physical or mental health ...
... physical condition . A Russian cosmonaut would be ideal ( American astronauts are mostly too old ) . There would surely be hundreds , thousands of volunteers , just such young men , all worthy . But I would not pick any of them . Nor ...
... physical and mental ill health . Women's health began to be obsessively debated by the whole society , with allegations of their frailty and illnesses , and the 19th century was called by some the " age of the womb " ( Stage , 1979 ) ...
... physical Rubicon , " or some other euphemism . Today menopause is still referred to by some medical writers as an " endocrinopathy " or " deficiency disease " ( Utian , 1987 ) . In this book , the term climacteric will refer to " that ...
... physical illness , we must first understand the historical and social contexts in which they occurred . Although it is beyond the scope of this chapter to answer them , let us pose the following questions : Why and how did these ...
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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 |