An edition of The wrong prescription for women (2015)

The wrong prescription for women

how medicine and media create a "need" for treatments, drugs, and surgery

by and

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Cover of: The wrong prescription for women by Maureen C. McHugh, Joan C. Chrisler
Preview Only

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
June 23, 2023 | History
Edit
An edition of The wrong prescription for women (2015)

The wrong prescription for women

how medicine and media create a "need" for treatments, drugs, and surgery

by and

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Praeger
Language
English
Pages
292

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Subjects
Health in mass media, Health and hygiene, Health aspects, Body image in women, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Women, Psychology, Body Image, Stereotyping, Medicalization, Women's Health, Methods, Women, health and hygiene, Body image, Electrotyping
Edition Availability
Cover of: The wrong prescription for women
The wrong prescription for women: how medicine and media create a "need" for treatments, drugs, and surgery
2015, Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Praeger
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Women's psychology, Women's psychology (Westport, Conn.)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
615.1/4082
Library of Congress
RS57 .W76 2015, RS57

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 292 pages
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27194295M
Internet Archive
wrongprescriptio0000unse
ISBN 10
1440831769
ISBN 13
9781440831768
LCCN
2015005594
OCLC/WorldCat
898167436

Source records

marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
Better World Books record
marc_columbia MARC record
marc_nuls MARC record
Promise Item
Internet Archive item record

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
June 23, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 19, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 21, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
July 19, 2019 Created by MARC Bot import new book