Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
List Price: $15.00
Amazon Price: $2.00
Average Customer Rating: 
(11 reviews)
Editorial Review: FROM THE EDITORS OF THE CLASSIC "BIBLE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH," A TRUSTWORTHY, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO HELP EVERY WOMAN NAVIGATE THE MENOPAUSE TRANSITIONFor decades, millions of women have relied on Our Bodies, Ourselves to provide the most comprehensive, honest, and accurate information on women's health. Now, in Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause, the editors of the classic guide discuss the transition of menopause. With a preface by Vivian Pinn, M.D., the director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause includes definitive information from the latest research and personal stories from a diverse group of women.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause provides an in-depth look at subjects such as hormone therapy and sexuality as well as proven strategies for coping with challenges like hot flashes, mood swings, and night sweats. In clear, accessible language, the book disp...
Customer Reviews:
4 of 4 found this review helpful:
Our Bodies, Our Selves, 2007-11-16
The book is ok. At the same time I bought this book I also purchased one by Cr. Christiana Northrup on menopause called "The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change", which I much prefer. The second volume encourages trying a holistic approach to menopause before resorting to hormone replacement therapy. Our Bodies, Our Selves barely mentions that approach as a suitable means of treating symptoms.
3 of 3 found this review helpful:
The absolute best book on the market!, 2007-05-22
This is a spectacular book. There is so much biased junk out there. This book provides the scientific basis for what is happening to our bodies and then provides the pros and cons of all of the different therapies, combined with real life stories of people who are going through it or have gone through it. Finally a true and reliable source that is documented, unbiased and easy to read and follow.
If there is one book to buy about what is happening to you, this is the one! Thank you!!!
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
Finally a book y women for women, 2007-05-07
when I was in college "Our Bodies Ourselves" answered lots of quesitons for me and my friends. Now I find myself buying this book for my friends as they enter menopause (some surgicaly) and it is once again a valuable tool.
12 of 18 found this review helpful:
No REAL information, 2007-02-14
I am a 46 yr old woman who has been thrown into surgical menopause. This book has so little specific information regarding actual menopause. I get the sense that I am to sit back, relax, breath, eat something soy and just get through this wonderful & most natural phase of my life. Here is what I learned from this book - all the drug companies are evil. Doctors are owned by the drug companies. Women's health issues are not studied as seriously as men's. I sure wasted my money on this one.
10 of 12 found this review helpful:
The other end of the birds-and-the-bees story, 2007-02-11
When we are teenagers and pre-teen girls, everybody's attention is on explaining what to expect at our first menstrual period. Whether the information is accurate or not, whether it comes from a girlfriend or a parent or a Sex Ed class, we're given a lot of data: this is how pregnancy happens, here's the basics on tampon usage, and so on. And girls talk amongst themselves about the subject, announcing (with some odd sort of pride) that they have their period, and what cramps feel like, etc.
But at the other end of the fertility cycle, the situation is much different. I didn't even know when my sisters had their "change of life;" it isn't the sort of thing we discuss. I realized recently just how little I knew about menopause, and what to expect, either as a normal part of the process or something that ought to send me scurrying to the doctor. It was time, I decided, to do some research.
Back in the 70s, I bought the original Our Bodies Ourselves; in fact, I still own the same copy. I learned to trust that book for health explanations that were also balanced, such as explaining the advantages and disadvantages of each method of birth control. And the authors made the topic interesting, compassionate, and relevant, which was saying something. Little or nothing was written in that book about menopause, however; even if it had been, I knew it'd be long out of date!
I'm pleased with this book, for the same reasons that I loved the first Our Bodies Ourselves. It's written conversationally, not like a medical text that makes me worry if this material will be on the final exam. It's very reassuring about the normalcy of the process, and (like the first book, which emphasized that pregnancy is not a "disease" even if doctors sometimes treat it that way), stresses the importance of making your own choices. Most importantly, it tells me what to expect. And darnit, it's interesting; I haven't finished the book yet, but I'm reading it with the dedicated attention of a whodunnit where I haven't yet figured out who the murderer is.
One thing I appreciate -- which will also demonstrate that I'm still a crunchy granola hippie -- is that OBO:Menopause practically underlines the medical research that's been done, and the factors that can sometimes make that research unreliable. (For instance, they point out, drug companies underwrite a lot of research, choose which data to use, and miraculously come out with results that support their use of, say, a certain hormone.) But as with the earlier book, the data is all laid out in a way that lets YOU make the decisions; nobody tells you what conclusions to draw. I love that.
I haven't read widely on this subject, so I can't tell you if it's the best book about menopause. But I'm quite impressed with the information provided and with its accessibility. I think you will be, too.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy from Amazon
