An application of the theory of life's lesions to the study of the menopausal transition

Menopause

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 769-776

  Finkler, Kaja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotions; Extrasomatic factors; Medicalization; Mexico; Moral ideology; Phenomenology; Theory of menopausal manifestations

Indexed keywords

ANGER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE; MALNUTRITION; MENOPAUSE; MIGRATION; MORALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACISM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIETY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAR;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENOPAUSE; MEXICO; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34447298604     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e318030f20e     Document Type: Conference Paper

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