Our Bodies Ourselves - Menopause

Readers familiar with Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published in 1970, will find the same comprehensive, balanced and empowering approach in this volume.

The authors consider menopause within the totality of women's health and as a natural process; not a medical problem. They detail typical menopausal symptoms, mainstream and alternative treatments, and risk factors for such conditions as osteoporosis, heart disease, cancer and diabetes as women age. They explain the biology of menopause; provide up-to-date perspectives on hormone replacement therapy (HRT); discuss sudden and early menopause due to surgery, medical treatments or genetic risk factors; and offer personal reflections by individual women

The sections on how to evaluate research findings; make wise health-care decisions; understand the social, cultural, economical and political frameworks in which women's health care is viewed and formulated; and nurture the self--mind, body and spirit--during years of change on all levels will prove most useful.

Author: Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Paperback: 368 pages