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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.

Van Pelt Library RS57 .W76 2015
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
McHugh, Maureen C., editor.
Chrisler, Joan C., editor.
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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