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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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Houck, Judith A. (Judith Anne) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Menopause > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Menopause > Treatment > United States > History > 20th century.
Middle-aged women > Health and hygiene > United States > History > 20th century.
Menopause.
Menopause
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
History, 20th Century
Women > history
Ménopause > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Ménopause > Traitement > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes d'âge moyen > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Ménopause.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
MEDICAL > History.
Menopause > Social aspects
Middle-aged women > Health and hygiene
Menopauze.
Medicalisering.
Sociale geschiedenis.
United States
History
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