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The French invention of menopause and the medicalisation of women's ageing : a history
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Title
The French invention of menopause and the medicalisation of women's ageing : a history / Alison M. Downham Moore.
ISBN
9780191925528
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 1, 2022).
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Summary
Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the 19th century. This is a 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.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 08, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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