Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674027404ISBN-10:067402740XUPC:9780674027404Book Category:Health & Fitness, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women's Health, History, Women's StudiesSize:9.13 x 6.27 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCB1702VWV
How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? As she traces the medicalization of menopause over the last 100 years, historian Judith Houck challenges some widely held assumptions. Physicians hardly foisted hormones on reluctant female patients; rather, physicians...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674027404ISBN-10:067402740XUPC:9780674027404Book Category:Health & Fitness, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women's Health, History, Women's StudiesSize:9.13 x 6.27 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCB1702VWV
Houck, Judith A.: - Judith A. Houck is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Medical History and Bioethics, and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW Center for Women's Health Research.
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