Menopause : a biocultural perspective /
Menopause is a biological reality for all women in their forties and fifties. Yet the way we think about the cessation of menstruation is influenced by a variety of factors. Cultural and technological influences combine with biology to transform this universal phenomenon into an experience that vari...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2006.
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| Col·lecció: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=179780 |
| Sumari: | Menopause is a biological reality for all women in their forties and fifties. Yet the way we think about the cessation of menstruation is influenced by a variety of factors. Cultural and technological influences combine with biology to transform this universal phenomenon into an experience that varies considerably between cultures and individuals. In this concise book, Lynnette Leidy Sievert draws on her own case studies from Puebla, Mexico, and western Massachusetts, as well as on comparative data from other studies in places such as Slovenia, Paraguay, and Hawaii, to explore the different wa. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813539997 0813539994 9786610947102 6610947104 1280947101 9781280947100 0813538556 0813538564 9780813538556 9780813538563 |