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Blood and Nerves

An Ethnographic Focus on Menopause

by (author) Dona Dee Davis

Publisher
ISER Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1983
Category
Physical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919666412
    Publish Date
    Jan 1983
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

What is universal and presumably physiological in women's experience of menopause? What is variable and cultural? Can status change vs. status continuity in middle age affect or mediate menopausal symptoms? How does one go about conducting an ethnography of menopause? Davis explores these questions in a southwest Newfoundland fishing village.

The book will be of interest to specialists in women's studies and aging, to public health and medical practitioners, as well as to the general reader. Included is a review of medical and social science literature on menopause.

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Contributor Notes

Dona Davis teaches in the Department of Social Behavior at the University of South Dakota.