The Wrong Prescription for Women: How Medicine and Media Create a "Need" for Treatments, Drugs, and Surgery

by Joan C. Chrisler and Maureen F. McHugh

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This groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and suggests that there are better ways for women to cope with real issues they may face.

Before any woman diets, douches, botoxes, reduces, reconstructs, or fills a prescription for antidepressants, statins, hormones, menstrual suppressants, or diet pills, she should read this book. Contesting common...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1440831769

ISBN13:9781440831768

Release Date:July 2015

Publisher:Praeger

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Age Range:7 to 17 years

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