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The social construction of menopause as risk
1Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden.
Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
Menopause and postmenopause are increasingly defined as a period of health risks that require medical and pharmacological treatment. A social construction of menopause as risk is taking place in popular culture and in the medical field and implies a medicalization of women's lives.