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Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause - Softcover

Foxcroft, Louise

 
9781847081711: Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847081711 ISBN 13: 9781847081711
Verlag: Granta Publications, 2010

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A powerful, taboo-shattering medical and social history that redresses the myths and delivers the truths about menopause
 
Meticulously researched and always entertaining, this book traces the history of "the change of life" from its appearance in classical texts and the medical literature of the 18th century to up-to-the-minute contemporary clinical approaches. For more than 2,000 years, attitudes toward menopause have created dread, shame, and confusion. Its progression from natural phenomenon to full-blown pathological condition led to bizarre treatments and often dangerous surgery, and formalized a misogyny which lingers in the treatment of menopausal women today. Delving into the archives, the boudoir, and the doctor's bag, this book reveals the elements that formed the menopause myth: chauvinism, collusion, trial, error, and secrecy. Absurd assumptions that have persisted through history are challenged here, such as the idea that sex stops at menopause, or that aging should be feared.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Louise Foxcroft is the author of The Making of Addiction. She writes for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. She was awarded the Longman Pearson/History Today Book of the Year Award for this book.

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Verlag
Granta Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847081711
ISBN 13 
9781847081711
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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