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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Louise Foxcroft |
ISBN: | 9781847081711 1847081711 |
OCLC Number: | 1063543407 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2009. |
Awards: | Winner of Longman History Today Prize 2010 (UK) |
Description: | 1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Louise Foxcroft. |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
'Lively and well researched' Literary Review 'Hot Flushes, Cold Science is a serious book, packed full of the thought-provoking information you never come across - read this book' India Knight, Evening Standard 'Not many Cambridge academics can make you laugh aloud and gasp with shock. Louise Foxcroft does both in a rampaging history of the relationship between doctors and the menopause through three centuries. It's enough to give a septuagenarian bishop hot flushes, believe me' Libby Purves, Mail on Sunday 'Hot Flushes, Cold Science shows how and why the menopause remains a taboo - Liberate yourself from your fears is Foxcroft's final message. Ageing is not a disease and affects both sexes' Observer Read more...

