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Medicine > History of Medicine

The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing: A History
Downham Moore, Alison M.

ISBN 13:

9780192842916

ISBN 10:

0192842919

Category:

History of Medicine

Edition:

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

2023

Format:

Cloth

Status:

Out of Stock at the Publisher

Imprint:

Oxford University Press

Affiliation:

School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University

Audience:

Professional and scholarly

Dimensions:

6.5 x 1.8 x 9.0 in

Pages:

512

Weight:

Retail Price:

150.00

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Synopsis:
Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the 19th century. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention.