The wrong prescription for women : how medicine and media create a "need" for treatments, drugs, and surgery / Maureen C. McHugh and Joan C. Chrisler, editors ; foreword by Paula J. Caplan.
Mourning matters : women and the medicalization of grief / Leeat Granek. (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.
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