The Fate of the Nontreated Postmenopausal Woman: A Plea for the Maintenance of Adequate Estrogen From Puberty to the Grave

Wilson, Robert A.; Wilson, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1963.tb00068.x

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“…On the other hand, several other authors have failed to find any significant difference between estrogen and placebos (Coppen, Ghose, & Roa, 1977;George, Beaumont, & Barwood, 1973). Yet the belief in estrogen as a panacea was so widely established in the 1960s by Wilson & Wilson (1963, 1966) that many physicians and women in North America still consider it a wonder drug. Premarin, an Downloaded by [University of Cambridge] at 00:17 09 February 2015 estrogen preparation, has been among the 50 best-selling drugs in the United States since the 1960s (Seaman, 1994).…”

Section: Menopause As a Deficiency Diseasementioning

confidence: 98%

Women in a south Indian fishing village: Role identity, continuity, and the experience of menopause

George¹

1996

Health Care for Women International

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A study was conducted of the experience of menopause among middle-aged women in a fishing village on the southwest coast of India. These women live in a harsh environment with a standard of living that would be considered economically deprived by an outsider. The women have established their identity as fish sellers. Although they reported experiencing some of the physiological symptoms of menopause typically reported in Western literature, the symptoms were not cause for complaint, and none of them sought medical treatment for them. Nor did these women go through an identity crisis at midlife; they continued to identify themselves as well-established fish sellers, not as redundant, aging housewives. Furthermore, menopause gave them much more time and freedom to pursue their fish-selling business. This paper posits that their continuity in identity accounts for their freedom from the psychological symptoms some Western women experience at midlife.

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Section: Menopause As a Deficiency Diseasementioning

confidence: 98%

Women in a south Indian fishing village: Role identity, continuity, and the experience of menopause

George¹

1996

Health Care for Women International

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“…This position was eloquently expressed by Wilson and Wilson (1963), a husband-wife, physician-nurse team who described the cause of the problem as follows:…”

Section: The Medicalization Of Menopausementioning

confidence: 98%

Multicultural Perspectives on Menopause and the Climacteric

Chornesky¹

1998

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Different cultures have different attitudes toward menopause and the symptoms of menopause. This article discusses research on these attitudes and suggests that the way menopause is conceptualized is primarily a function of societal attitudes toward the roles and status of women, especially mature women. It also presents recommendations for social work research and practice with women in midlife.Menopause-the cessation of menses, or the final menstrual period-is a single event lasting less than a week, whereas the climacteric spans a 30-year continuum between the ages of 35 and 65.... The decade of perimenopause at the center of the climacteric includes all the phases of menopause: premenopause, menopause and postmenopause. (Notelovitz, 1993, p. 26) The most creative force in the world is the woman with postmenopausal zest. (attributed to Margaret Mead, quoted in Lock, 1993, p. xiv) Women's experiences with the climacteric period vary tremendously from culture to culture. The symptoms women typically experience during this period range from virtually none to severe. Japanese women's symptoms have been described as minimal (Lock, 1993) and those of Mayan women in Mexico as

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“…Der New Yorker Gynäkologe Robert A. Wilson wurde zur Galionsfigur dieser Bewegung. Er veröffentlichte 1963 zusammen mit seiner Frau Thelma, einer über-zeugten Hormonanwenderin, in der Zeitschrift der Amerikanischen geriatrischen Gesellschaft eine Arbeit mit dem Titel "The fate of the non treated postmenopausal women: a plea for the maintenance of aedequate estrogen from puberty to the grave" ( [26]; "Das Schicksal der nicht behandelten postmenopausalen Frauen: ein Plädoyer für den Erhalt adäquater Ös-trogenspiegel von der Pubertät bis zum Grab"). Etwa später folgte ein weitere Artikel mit dem Titel "The obsolete menopause" ( [27]; "Die obsolete Menopause").…”

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