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Author: Louise Foxcroft
ISBN : B006IOS5G8
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Download electronic versions of selected books Free Download Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download LinkFor over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical literature of the eighteenth century, to up-to-the-minute contemporary clinical approaches. Its progression from natural phenomenon to full-blown pathological condition from the 1700s led to bizarre treatments and often dangerous surgery, and formalized a misogyny which lingers in the treatment of menopausal women today.
Louise Foxcroft delves into the archives, the boudoir and the Gladstone bag to reveal the elements that formed the menopause myth: chauvinism, collusion, trial, error and secrecy. She challenges us to rethink absurd assumptions that have persisted through history - that sex stops at the menopause, or that ageing should be feared. It redresses the myths and captures the truths about menopause.Direct download links available for Free Download Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause
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- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Granta Books (October 27, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006IOS5G8
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This book has a great deal of historical information which was very interesting. However the author is from the UK, and some of the terminology is a bit different.
When the author reached modern times I felt that she did not accept that some women really, really do have problems during (peri)menopause. I can remember, not too long ago, that many woman ended up “institutionalized” when their bodies did not adjust to the drastic changes in hormone levels when women reach menopause. (Since the concept of Hormone Replacement Therapy had already been well researched by then, and proven effective, I do not understand why so many women did not receive HRT – including my mother. And, even earlier than that, some women “took to their beds” and became “invalids”, unable to deal with the stresses of day to day living. Other than the author’s not seeming to relate to the women who do suffer terribly, this book was worth the time to read.
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