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

Book Overview

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