French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing : : A History / / Alison M. Downham Moore.
Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by Frenchmen medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of do...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Oxford University Press USA,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 488 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter Copyright Page Acknowledgements List of Images Introduction: The Layering of Medical Concepts 1 Amenorrhea, Plethora, and the Final Cessation of Menses in Early Modern Medicine 2 Women's Life Expectancy, Cancer, and the Cessation of Menses 3 Crises, Critical Ages, and the 'Invention' of la Ménopause, c.1770-1812 4 Menstruation, Vapours, Hypochondria, and Hysteria 5 Women's Ageing and Medical Hygiene: Between Montpellier and Paris 6 Instrumentalising the Ancient Past and Folk Traditions: Hippocrates, Charlatans, and Purgatives in the Invention of Menopause 7 Menopause, Erotomania, and Degeneration in French Psychiatry 8 The First Discussions of Menopause in the Work of Women Medical and Health Writers in France 9 Women Writers' Fictional, Autobiographical, and Epistolary Responses to Medical Discourses About Women's Ageing, 1900-1930 10 Fibroids, Hysterectomy, and the Opotherapy-Surgical Technology Nexus Conclusion End Matter Bibliography Index.