Reinterpreting Menopause Christophe P. Basso the fundamentally social nature of

the fundamentally social nature of medical practice: physicians do not prescribe as the result of a clinical algorithm but prescribe in the context of a conversation with a parent and a child

political and biographical comentators have done much to perpetuate this view

The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s

making this text particularly attractive to the current generation of students in psychology and related health and wellness disciplines

whilst consideration of non-European perspectives from China and Japan underline its global focus

Reinterpreting Menopause Christophe P. Basso the fundamentally social nature ofReinterpreting Menopause brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and political science and includes the voices and experiences of menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays, current thinking about medicine, society and the body is critically examined. Particular attention is given to the medical representations of menopause,