Menopause: time to rethink it

Authors

  • Carlos Enrique Escobar Gónima Universidad de Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iatreia.3999

Keywords:

History and Epistemology, WHI report (Women‘s Health Initiative) Menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

Abstract

This article presents a historic review about the recent ways in which medicine conceives menopause, the implications of the Women‘s Health Initiative Studies and the need to develop a critic attitude before adopting foreign doctrines, technologies and drug therapies.

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Author Biography

Carlos Enrique Escobar Gónima, Universidad de Antioquia

Ginecólogo y Obstetra, Profesor Historia, Medicina y Sociedad, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

Published

2003-02-10

How to Cite

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Escobar Gónima CE. Menopause: time to rethink it. Iatreia [Internet]. 2003 Feb. 10 [cited 2025 Dec. 13];16(2):pág. 168-173. Available from: https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/iatreia/article/view/3999

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Original research