In recent years, there has been extensive analysis of the health
effects of menopause and the safety and efficacy of the various
"treatments". There has also been rising concern about the
appropriation and pathologization of menopause by medicine and its
effects on women. At the same time, however, there has been
relatively little reflection on the social, cultural, philosophical
and ethical issues raised by both menopause itself and the way it
has been handled by medicine. This text brings together a number of
reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism,
cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and
political science and includes the voices and experiences of
menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays,
current thinking about medicine, society and the body is examined
critically. Particular attention is given to the medical
representations of menopause, biology and ageing, the history of
medical approaches to women and the tensions between bio-medical
models and other explanations of menopause. The issue of hormonal
therapies is explored in the context of the connections between
women, medicine, representation and cultural politic
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