The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing A History

Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by Frenchmen medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of do...

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Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022
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