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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.
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Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books