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Hot and bothered : women, medicine, and menopause in modern America /
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? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674038813 0674038819 |