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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... physicians and pharmaceu- tical manufacturers against nonmedical researchers , feminists , and consumers . For the medical establishment , the debate is narrower than it is for social scientists . For physicians , menopause is simply a ...
... physicians and other clinicians . Whereas physicians and pharmaceutical manufacturers adhere to a narrow view , nonmedical researchers have called attention to the variety of meanings of the menopause . Medical personnel refer to ...
... physician and mathematician , John Freind , whose ideas on menopause are summarized in chapter 1 of this book . I ... physicians , homeopaths , phrenologists , water curers , as well as more recent works by women historians . Since ...
... physicians began to formulate a more benign view of menopause : that it was a normal stage of life , that male physicians had overemphasized the pathology of their menopausal patients and overlooked the ma- jority of women without ...
... assumed to include major gender biases . With the exception of the writings of women physicians and the Mosher ( 1980 ) survey conducted between 1892 and 1920 , no extant documents from women - letters , diaries , journals - 4 RUTH ...
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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 |