French invention of menopause and the medicalisation of women's ageing, the: a history
Auteur :
Downham Moore, Alison M.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780192842916
Date de publication :
20 oct. 2022
Dimensions :
24,0 x 16,4 x 3,1 cm
Poids :
998 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the 19th century. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention.