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Title The wrong prescription for women : how medicine and media create a "need" for treatments, drugs, and surgery / Maureen C. McHugh and Joan C. Chrisler, editors ; foreword by Paula J. Caplan
Published Santa Barbara, California : Praeger an imprint of ABC-CLIO, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Women's psychology
Women's psychology (Westport, Conn.)
Contents Pregnancy and birth as a medical crisis / Ruthbeth D. Finerman, Adriane M.F. Sanders, and Lynda Sagrestano -- (Re)productive disorders : the expanding marketplace of infertility medicine / Emily Breitkopf and Lisa R. Rubin -- The medicalization of the menstrual cycle : menstruation as a disorder / Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris -- The medicalization of women's moods : premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder / Joan C. Chrisler and Jennifer A. Gorman -- Menopause : deficiency disease or normal reproductive transition? / Heather Dillaway -- Menopause and sexuality : resisting representations of the abject asexual woman / Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, and Chloe Parton -- Women's sexual problems : is there a pill for that? / Leonore Tiefer -- The thin ideal : a 'wrong prescription' sold to many and achievable by few / Mindy J. Erchull -- From fat shaming to size acceptance : challenging the medical management of fat women / Ashley E. Kasardo and Maureen C. McHugh -- Medicalizing women's weight : bariatric surgery and weight-loss drugs / Julie Konik and Christine A. Smith -- Can women's body image be 'fixed'? women's bodies, well-being, and cosmetic surgery / Charlotte N. Markey & Patrick M. Markey -- Women's loss of self through anti-depressants : The depression diagnosis as a form of social control / Alisha Ali -- Mourning matters : women and the medicalization of grief / Leeat Granek
Summary "Before any woman diets, douches, botoxes, reduces, reconstructs, or fills a prescription for antidepressants, statins, hormones, menstrual suppressants, or diet pills, she should read this book. Contesting common medical practice, the book addresses the many aspects of women's lives that have been targeted as 'deficient' in order to support the billion-dollar profits of the medical-pharmacological industry and suggests alternatives to these 'remedies.' The contributors--psychologists, sociologists, and health experts--are also gender experts and feminist scholars who recognize the ways in which gender is an important aspect of the human experience. In this eye-opening work, they challenge the marketing and "science" that increasingly render women's bodies and experiences as a series of symptoms, diseases, and dysfunctions that require treatment by medical professionals who prescribe pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. Each article in the book addresses the marketing of a specific "condition" that has been constructed in a way that convinces a woman that her body is inadequate or her experience and behavior are not good enough. Among the topics addressed are menstruation, menopause, pregnancy, post-partum adjustment, sexual desire, weight, body dissatisfaction, moodiness, depression, grief, and anxiety."--Google books viewed Feb. 2, 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
Vendor-supplied metadata
Subject Women -- Health and hygiene.
Drugs -- Marketing.
Women's Health
Body Image -- psychology
Medicalization -- methods
Stereotyping
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Drugs -- Marketing
Women -- Health and hygiene
Form Electronic book
Author McHugh, Maureen C., editor.
Chrisler, Joan C., editor.
ISBN 9781440831775
1440831777