Attitudes and adaptations of women and gynecologists to menopause
Mbarga, J.
Revue Medicale Suisse 11(488): 1815-1817
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1660-9379 PMID: 26619705 Document Number: 684353
From a socio-anthropological perspective, this article, based on observations and interviews with French-speaking women and gynecologists at a teaching hospital in western Switzerland, shows that women self-represent and live with menopause in different ways that influence their management practices and guide exchanges with gynecologists. Regarding gynecologists, beyond scientific knowledge, they also have representations of menopause and its treatments as well as personal convictions and professional trajectories underlying their practices. As a consequence, the relationship between women and gynecologists may vary according to the protagonists and can take several forms from consensus to conflict.