Encounters with aging [[electronic resource] ] : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America / / Margaret Lock |
Autore | Lock Margaret M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xliv, 439 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 305.24/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Middle-aged women - Japan
Middle-aged women - North America Menopause - Japan Menopause - North America Adult Sociology Climacteric Culture Persons Social Sciences Age Groups Reproductive Physiological Phenomena Anthropology, Cultural Sexual Development Named Groups Reproductive Physiological Processes Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena Anthropology Phenomena and Processes Menopause Social Environment Cross-Cultural Comparison Women Middle Aged |
ISBN |
0-520-91662-X
0-585-13105-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women -- PART I JAPAN: MATURITY AND KŌNENKI -- 1. The The Turn of Life—Unstable Meanings -- 2. Probabilities and Kōnenki -- 3. Resignation, Resistance, Satisfaction—Narratives of Maturity -- 4. The Pathology of Modernity -- 5. Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family -- 6. Illusion of Indolence—Ideology and Partial Truths -- 7. Odd Women Out -- 8. Controlled Selves and Tempered Bodies -- 9. Peering Behind the Platitudes—Rituals of Resistance -- 10. The Doctoring of Kōnenki -- "Invisible Messengers" -- PART II: FROM DODGING TIME TO DEFICIENCY DISEASE -- 11. The Making of Menopause -- 12. Against Nature—Menopause as Herald of Decay -- "An Act of Freedom" -- Epilogue: The Politics of Aging—Flashes of Immortality |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248110303316 |
Lock Margaret M | ||
Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Management of menopause-related symptoms |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality U S Dept of Health and Human Services, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 362.198/175 |
Collana | Evidence report/technology assessment Management of menopause-related symptoms |
Soggetto topico |
Menopause - Treatment
Evidence-based medicine Clinical Medicine Epidemiologic Studies Investigative Techniques Evidence-Based Practice Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Hormone Replacement Therapy Climacteric Sexual Development Health Occupations Medicine Drug Therapy Diseases Reproductive Physiological Phenomena Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms Epidemiologic Methods Therapeutics Reproductive Physiological Processes Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena Quality of Health Care Public Health Environment and Public Health Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Health Care Cohort Studies Cross-Sectional Studies Estrogen Replacement Therapy Methods Menopause Signs and Symptoms Evidence-Based Medicine Health & Biological Sciences Gynecology & Obstetrics |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910693974403321 |
[Place of publication not identified], : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality U S Dept of Health and Human Services, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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