title: The social construction of menopause as risk.
abstract: Menopause and postmenopause are increasingly defined as a period of health risks that require medical and pharmacological treatment. A social construction of menopause as risk is taking place in popular culture and in the medical field and implies a medicalization of women's lives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Palmlund
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D014481:United States