Wrong Prescription for Women

How Medicine and Media Create a "Need" for Treatments, Drugs, and Surgery

AvMaureen McHugh,Maureen C. McHugh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

This groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and suggests that there are better ways for women to cope with real issues they may face.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-07-14
Mått:156 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Women's Psychology
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:PaulaJ. Caplan
ISBN:9781440831768

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Mer om författaren

Maureen C. McHugh, PhD, teaches gender and diversity at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP).Joan C. Chrisler, PhD, is the Class of 1943 Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College.

Recensioner i media

The threads that tie the volume together are clear: the pathologizing and undervaluing of women's health-related experiences; the double-edged sword of medicalization, which can take women's health risks seriously while patronizingly 'localizing authority for [their health] care in the hands of physicians' (to quote the chapter titled 'Pregnancy and Birth as a Medical Crisis'); and social context and the influences of the media. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.

Innehållsförteckning

Series ForewordMichele A. Paludi, Series EditorForewordPaula J. CaplanIntroduction: The Medicalization of Women's Bodies and Everyday ExperienceMaureen C. McHugh and Joan C. Chrisler1. Pregnancy and Birth as a Medical CrisisRuthbeth D. Finerman, Adriane M. F. Sanders, and Lynda M. Sagrestano2. (Re)Productive Disorders: The Expanding Marketplace of Infertility MedicineEmily Breitkopf and Lisa R. Rubin3. The Medicalization of the Menstrual Cycle: Menstruation as a DisorderJessica Barnack-Tavlaris4. The Medicalization of Women's Moods: Premenstrual Syndrome and Premenstrual Dysphoric DisorderJoan C. Chrisler and Jennifer A. Gorman5. Menopause: Deficiency Disease or Normal Reproductive Transition?Heather Dillaway6. Menopause and Sexuality: Resisting Representations of the Abject Asexual WomanJane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, and Chloe Parton7. Women's Sexual Problems: Is There a Pill for That?Leonore Tiefer8. The Thin Ideal: A "Wrong Prescription" Sold to Many and Achievable by FewMindy J. Erchull9. From Fat Shaming to Size Acceptance: Challenging the Medical Management of Fat WomenAshley E. Kasardo and Maureen C. McHugh10. Medicalizing Women's Weight: Bariatric Surgery and Weight-Loss DrugsJulie Konik and Christine A. Smith11. Can Women's Body Image Be "Fixed"? Women's Bodies, Well-Being, and Cosmetic SurgeryCharlotte N. Markey and Patrick M. Markey12. Women's Loss of Self through Antidepressants: The Depression Diagnosis as a Form of Social ControlAlisha Ali13. Mourning Matters: Women and the Medicalization of GriefLeeat GranekIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

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