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The French invention of menopause and the medicalisation of women's ageing : a history /

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"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...

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Main Author: Moore, Alison, 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Menopause > France > History > 19th century.
Women > Health and hygiene > France > History > 19th century.
Medical literature > France > History and criticism.
Medical innovations > France > History > 19th century.
Medicalization > France > History > 19th century.
Ménopause > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Documentation > France > Histoire et critique.
Médecine > Innovations > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médicalisation > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Europe.
HISTORY.
Modern.
Social History.
Women.
MEDICAL.
Medical innovations
Medical literature
Menopause
Women > Health and hygiene
France
Clinical & internal medicine.
Health and Wellbeing.
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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