Hot and Bothered : : Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America / / Judith A Houck.

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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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. "Menopause Is Not a Dangerous Time" --   |t 2. "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics" --   |t 3. "Consider the Patient as a Woman and Not a Group of Glands" --   |t 4. "The Change Emancipates Women" --   |t 5. "Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home" --   |t 6. "Why All the Fuss?" --   |t 7. Feminine Forever --   |t 8. "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones" --   |t 9. "What Do These Women Want?" --   |t Epilogue --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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