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"We've been trained to put up with it"
— real women and the menopause | | Author(s) | Margaret E Morris, Anthea Symonds |
| Journal title | Critical Public Health, vol 14, no 3, 2004 |
| Pages | pp 311-323 |
| Source | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Keywords | Older women ; Attitude ; Menopause ; Drugs ; Qualitative Studies ; Wales. |
| Annotation | Based on qualitative research with a group of 11 women in South Wales in 1998, this paper looks at the meanings the women gave to the menopause, its effect on their working and family lives, and the support offered by medicine and health promotion. The study is set against a wider discussion of the medicalisation of the menopause and the organisation of work within which the current generation of women is situated. It also argues for a new public health approach, including the adoption of more qualitative research techniques that would address people's concerns and beliefs, rather than following the traditional "objective" epidemiological model. The paper concludes that the present generation of women do not share a negative view of the menopause, but are struggling against mixed messages from their own cultural background, from promotion of medicalised "solutions" and from contemporary pressures of work. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041214215 A |
| Classmark | BD: DP: CC:BD: LLD: 3DP: 9 |
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