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The wrong prescription for women : how medicine and media create a "need" for treatments, drugs, and surgery / Maureen C. McHugh and Joan C. Chrisler, editors ; foreword by Paula J. Caplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's psychology (Westport, Conn.) 1931-0021
- Women's psychology, 1931-0021
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Women.
- Health in mass media.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Health aspects.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- Body image in women.
- Women's Health.
- Body Image--psychology.
- Medicalization--methods.
- Stereotyping.
- Medical Subjects:
- Women's Health.
- Body Image--psychology.
- Medicalization--methods.
- Stereotyping.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 292 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
- Contents:
- Pregnancy and birth as a medical crisis / Ruthbeth D. Finerman, Adriane M. F. Sanders, and Lynda Sagrestano
- (Re)productive disorders : the expanding marketplace of infertility medicine / Emily Breitkopf and Lisa R. Rubin
- The medicalization of the menstrual cycle : menstruation as a disorder / Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris
- The medicalization of women's moods : premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder / Joan C. Chrisler and Jennifer A. Gorman
- Menopause : deficiency disease or normal reproductive transition? / Heather Dillaway
- Menopause and sexuality : resisting representations of the abject asexual woman / Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, and Chloe Parton
- Women's sexual problems : is there a pill for that? / Leonore Tiefer
- The thin ideal : a 'wrong prescription' sold to many and achievable by few / Mindy J. Erchull
- From fat shaming to size acceptance : challenging the medical management of fat women / Ashley E. Kasardo and Maureen C. McHugh
- Medicalizing women's weight : bariatric surgery and weight-loss drugs / Julie Konik and Christine A. Smith
- Can women's body image be 'fixed'? women's bodies, well-being, and cosmetic surgery / Charlotte N. Markey & Patrick M. Markey
- Women's loss of self through anti-depressants : The depression diagnosis as a form of social control / Alisha Ali
- Mourning matters : women and the medicalization of grief / Leeat Granek.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781440831768
- 1440831769
- OCLC:
- 898167436
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