While the menopause has been a subject of international interest since the 1960s, most research on this topic, by physician researchers, during the last twenty years, has concentrated on hormonal replacement therapy for climacteric symptoms. From the early 1970s, social and behavioral scientists also started to study the menopause cross-culturally , concentrating on age at onset, as well as climacteric symptoms, completely apart from hormonal treatment. The medical and socialibehavioral disciplines have only occasionally cooperated in doing joint research on the menopause. This paper will describe an interdisciplinary research project, by an anthropologist and a physician, that will illustrate how interdisciplinary research can be beneficial to both sciences, and may serve as one type of model for future interdisciplinary research on the menopause.
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