Publications of the Project - GenderHealthMedicine

Books

Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing, A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). 512 pages. ISBN: 9780192842916. See details of the page here. And purchase details here.

Work in Progress

Journal Special Edition: ‘Gendered and Sexual Aging in the History and Culture of Medicine, Currently being considered by the Journal of Aging Studies. Co-edited with Professor Sarah Lamb (Brandeis University). See the call for papers for this here.

MONOGRAPH: Gendered Ageing in the Intercultural History of Biomedicine (expected completion June 2023)

Journal Articles

‘Conceptual Layers in the Invention of Menopause in Nineteenth-Century France,’ French History 32 (2) May 2018, 226-248. DOI: 10.1093/fh/cry006.

‘Temporal Layering in the Long Conceptual History of Sexual Medicine: Reading Koselleck with Foucault,’ Journal of the Philosophy of History 15 (1), April 2021, 5-27.

‘Aphrodisiacs in the Global History of Medical Thought, co-authored with Rashmi Pithavadian,’ Journal of Global History 16 (1) March 2021: 24-43. DOI: 10.1017/S1740022820000108.

Conference Papers

Do Menopausal Women Need Estrogen Replacement to Avoid Osteoporosis? Journal of Evolution & Health 4 (1), December 2019, 1-10. Papers from the Ancestral Health Symposium, San Diego CA, USA 2019. DOI: 10.15310/J34145992.

The French Elaboration of Ideas about Menopause, Sexuality and Aging 1805-1920. French History & Civilization 8: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar (2019), 34-50.

Menopause from an Integrative Historical and Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Evolution & Health 3 (1), February 2019, 1-10. Papers from the Ancestral Health Symposium, Boseman MT, USA 2018. DOI: 10.15310/2334-3591.1097.

Interviews, Blog posts, Videos etc.

‘A Long History of Aphrodisiacs, from Health Tonic to Sexual Aid,’ Psyche Magazine (Aeon Media Group Ltd), 19^th May 2021: Link here.

George Rude Seminar and French Historical Studies combined online conference July 2020: ‘French Doctors and the Intercultural Discovery of Women’s Longevity’: Link here..

Ancestral Health Symposium talk, San Diego July 18^th 2019: ‘How Ancestral are Hormone Replacement Therapies? Link here.

30/30 Health Podcast interview, August 28^th 2018: Link here.

Blog-post for University of London Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Blog while a Visiting Fellow there 2017, ‘Myths of Menopause’: Link here.