Journal article
Changing ideas: The medicalization of menopause
Social science & medicine (1982), v 24(6), pp 535-542
1987
PMID: 3296222
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Abstract
This paper examines the intellectual roots of the medicalization of menopause in the 1930s and 1940s. An analysis of published papers written by prominent American medical specialists reveals three models that were developed to understand menopause—biological, psychological and environmental— and shows how each contributed to its medicalization. This transformation was made possible by the paradigm of sex endocrinology and the availability of a new drug (DES), which was produced in 1938. Exploring the medicalization of menopause illuminates some of the special and complicated ways that women's experiences are vulnerable to medical control.
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Details
- Title
- Changing ideas: The medicalization of menopause
- Creators
- Susan E. Bell - Bowdoin College
- Publication Details
- Social science & medicine (1982), v 24(6), pp 535-542
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1987G844600008
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0023143583
- Other Identifier
- 991020638374004721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
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