Menopause Medicalisation

Normalising menopause | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069369

Martha Hickey and colleagues argue that social and cultural attitudes contribute to the varied experience of menopause and that medicalisation fuels negative perceptions. Menopause is a natural event for half of humankind. The term “menopause” …

The medicalization of menopause: critique and …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11809008/

Menopause is in the process of becoming medicalized. Midlife and older women are being told that natural menopause is actually a deficiency condition requiring replacement …

Menopause is not a disease. Experts call for new narrative for this ...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/health/menopause-medicalization-women-ageing-bmj-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html

In 2021, a global survey revealed 16% to 40% of women experience moderate to severe symptoms during menopause, such as feeling tired, hot flushes, …

Medicalising menopause - The Lancet

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60636-X/fulltext

Mainstream medical treatments, equally bizarre, ranged from ovariotomy (with a mortality rate of 45%) in the mid-19th century to irradiating ovaries to restore …

Menopause - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/menopause/symptoms-causes/syc-20353397

Medicalizing Menopause | Science History …

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/medicalizing-menopause

Proponents of this medicalized and pathologized model of menopause argued that long-term estrogen replacement therapy was essential for …

Doctors warn against over-medicalising menopause after UK …

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/15/doctors-warn-against-over-medicalising-menopause-after-uk-criticism

“It tends to emphasise the negative aspects of menopause and, while effective treatments are important for those with troublesome symptoms, medicalisation …

The Medicalization of Women | Women's Health Advocate

https://www.womenshealthadvocate.org/articles/the-medicalization-of-women/

In her book The Menopause Industry, Sandra Coney writes that “after measuring the bones of young women who had been using Depo-Provera for over five …

The Medicalization of Menopause: Critique and …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2190/M77D-YV2Y-D5NU-FXNW

Midlife and older women are being told that natural menopause is actually a deficiency condition requiring replacement hormones to maintain health and increase …

Changing ideas: the medicalization of menopause

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3296222/

This paper examines the intellectual roots of the medicalization of menopause in the 1930s and 1940s. An analysis of published papers written by prominent American medical …