The Menopause Industry: A Guide To Medicine's 'discovery' Of The Mid-life Woman
(Sandra Coney)
The modern medicine has ?discovered? the mid-life woman. She is now the sought after commodity. The entire health services and massive research programs are focused on her, whether she likes it or not.
This groundbreaking book challenges both medical and popular stereotypes of women at mid-life. Sandra Coney, who has been involved with women health issues for many years, argues that healthy mid-life women are being deliberately targeted by vested interests with products and services to sell.
In the process, the normal event of menopause is being redefined as a health hazard which needs to be treated.
Firstly, The Menopause Industry seeks to explain the politics of medicine?s interest in mid-life women; and, secondly, to give information. The book has achieved tremendous success on both counts.
Consequently, the book exposes the pressures which the new preventive medicine, with all its marketing pressure is now placing on mid-life women.
It examines, in detail, the benefits and risks of interventions such as hormone replacement therapy, mammography, and cervical screening.
The book starts from the basic premise that women at mid-life, which is defined as around 40 to 60 years of age, should expect to be well and enjoy life, not live in a state of apprehension waiting for decrepitude or disease to strike.
The author contended that a minority of women will experience ill-health or problems relating to menopause in this age group, but the majority will not ? a point that is well supported by factual information.
A lot of the material in this book is based on research published in papers and medical journals held in medical school libraries throughout the land ? materials which, until recently, are not readily available to women.
The Menopause Industry is an essential reading for all women who want to make informed decisions about the health options available to them.
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