Title The French invention of menopause and the medicalisation of women's ageing : a history / Alison M. Downham Moore.

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Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet	WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK Oxford	Downloadable
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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (xii, 488 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 09, 2022).
Summary	Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the 19th century. This is a 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.
Local Note	Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books
Subject	Menopause -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Women -- Health and hygiene -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Medical literature -- France -- History and criticism.
	Medical innovations -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Medical innovations.
	Medical literature.
	Menopause.
	Women -- Health and hygiene.
	France.
	Clinical & internal medicine.
	Health and Wellbeing.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Original 0192842919 9780192842916 (OCoLC)1310620020
ISBN	9780191925528 electronic book
	0191925527 electronic book
	9780192654526 electronic book
	0192654527 electronic book
	9780192654533 electronic book
	0192654535 electronic book
	0192842919
	9780192842916

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