The Wrong Prescription For Women: How Medicine And Media Create A 'Need' For Treatments, Drugs, And Surgery (Women's Psychology)

This volume brings together 13 chapters that challenge aspects of women's lives that have been marketed as deficient by the media and medical-pharmaceutical industry as their bodies and experiences are medicalized as a series of symptoms, diseases, and dysfunctions that require treatment. Psychologists, sociologists, and other health specialists from the US, Australia, and Israel present evidence about women's experiences and the information marketed toward them to sell drugs, cosmetic and other surgery, and other products related to pregnancy and birth, infertility, premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, menopause, sexuality, and sexual problems; weight and body image; and depression and grief.

• • Author: Maureen C. McHugh, Joan C. Chrisler
• • Publisher: Praeger
• • Publication Date: Jul 14, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 312 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1440831769
• • ISBN-13: 9781440831768