The wrong prescription for women
Subtitle: how medicine and media create a "need" for treatments, drugs, and surgery
By: Maureen C. McHugh and Joan C. Chrisler, editors ; foreword by Paula J. Caplan
Series: Women's psychology; Women's psychology (Westport, Conn.)
Publisher: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC; Praeger
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781440831768
Subjects: Health in mass media; Health and hygiene; Health aspects; Body image in women; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pregnancy and birth as a medical crisis / Ruthbeth D. Finerman, Adriane M. F. Sanders, and Lynda Sagrestano; title: (Re)productive disorders : the expanding marketplace of infertility medicine / Emily Breitkopf and Lisa R. Rubin; title: The medicalization of the menstrual cycle : menstruation as a disorder / Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris; title: The medicalization of women's moods : premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder / Joan C. Chrisler and Jennifer A. Gorman; title: Menopause : deficiency disease or normal reproductive transition? / Heather Dillaway; title: Menopause and sexuality : resisting representations of the abject asexual woman / Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, and Chloe Parton; title: Women's sexual problems : is there a pill for that? / Leonore Tiefer; title: The thin ideal : a 'wrong prescription' sold to many and achievable by few / Mindy J. Erchull; title: From fat shaming to size acceptance : challenging the medical management of fat women / Ashley E. Kasardo and Maureen C. McHugh; title: Medicalizing women's weight : bariatric surgery and weight-loss drugs / Julie Konik and Christine A. Smith; title: Can women's body image be 'fixed'? women's bodies, well-being, and cosmetic surgery / Charlotte N. Markey & Patrick M. Markey; title: Women's loss of self through anti-depressants : The depression diagnosis as a form of social control / Alisha Ali; title: Mourning matters : women and the medicalization of grief / Leeat Granek.