CHANGING IDEAS - THE MEDICALIZATION OF MENOPAUSE
CHANGING IDEAS - THE MEDICALIZATION OF MENOPAUSE
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DOI：
10.1016/0277-9536(87)90343-1
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发表时间：
1987-01-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
BELL, SE
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作者：
BELL, SE
This paper examines the intellectual roots of the medicalization of menopause in the 1930s and 1940s. An analysis of published papers written by prominent American medical specialists reveals three models that were developed to understand menopause—biological, psychological and environmental— and shows how each contributed to its medicalization. This transformation was made possible by the paradigm of sex endocrinology and the availability of a new drug (DES), which was produced in 1938. Exploring the medicalization of menopause illuminates some of the special and complicated ways that women's experiences are vulnerable to medical control.
