Reinterpreting Menopause: Cultural and Philosophical Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415915649 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 286 str.

Paul Komersaroff; Jeanne Daly; Paul Komesaroff

Opis

In recent years, there has been extensive analysis of the health effects of menopause and the safety and efficacy of the various treatments. There has also been rising concern about the appropriation and pathologization of menopause by medicine and its effects on women. At the same time, however, there has been relatively little reflection on the social, cultural, philosophical and ethical issues raised by both menopause itself and the way it has been handled by medicine.

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Mapping Menopause, Paul A. Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield, Jeanne Daly; Part 2 Menopausal Bodies; Chapter 2 The Left Hand of the Goddess, Fiona Mackie; Chapter 3 Menopausal Embodiment, Philipa Rothfield; Chapter 4 Medicine and the Moral Space of the Menopausal Woman, Paul A. Komesaroff; Part 3 Politics of the Symbolic; Chapter 5 Revolting Women, Mia Campioni; Chapter 6 Resisting Pathologies of Age and Race, E. Ann Kaplan; Chapter 7 Gynopathia Sexualis, Robyn Gardner; Part 4 Discursive Strategies; Chapter 8 Facing Change, Jeanne Daly; Chapter 9 Menopause as Magic Marker, Margaret Morganroth Gullette; Chapter 10 Situating Menopause within the Strategies of Power, Roe Sybylla; Part 5 Metaphors and Mutations; Chapter 11 Sources of Abjection in Western Responses to Menopause, Wendy Rogers; Chapter 12 The Woman in the Menopausal Body, Emily Martin; Chapter 13 Menopause and the Great Divide, Kwok Wei Leng;

O autorze

Paul Komesaroff is a clinical endocrinologist and director at a center for the Study of Medicine, Society and Law. He is the author of Objectivity, Science and Society (Routledge, 1986) Philipa Rothfield and Jeanne Daly teach at Latrobe University. Daly is also the editor of Designs, Dilemmas and Disciplines (Routledge, 1992.)