Alison M Downham Moore

Gebundenes Buch

The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing

A History

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Alison M. Downham Moore is a historian and medical humanities scholar. She is Associate Dean of Research in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. She has previously held positions at the University of Queensland and at the University of Sydney, as well as visiting research fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Germany. She holds a UK AdvanceHE Senior Teaching Fellowship. She is author of Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, Masochism and Historical Teleology (2016) and co-author with Peter Cryle of Frigidity, an Intellectual History (2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780192842916
• ISBN-10: 0192842919
• Artikelnr.: 66748464