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They attach relatively little importance to the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional instability. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report few hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders. Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematically undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultural settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, it also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole. Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. 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This incisive and timely discussion demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute. In addition to an analysis of that professional literature on and popular representations of the subject, Lock draws on extensive interviews conducted over ten years with physicians working in intensive care units, transplant surgeons, organ recipients, donor families, members of the general public in both Japan and North America, and political activists in Japan opposed to the recognition of brain death. 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Lock discusses concrete medical practice and its cultural significance in general...rich in comparisons, engrossing to read, and analytically penetrating ...an important and absorbing book. It is an engaging account of how at least some Japanese people respond to universal problems. Most readers will obtain from it their first clear impression of what East Asian medicine actually is and does.\" (Journal of Japanese Studies). \"Of considerable significance for comparative cross-cultural studies of medicine, of which this is the best account for a Japanese setting that we now possess.\" (Monumenta Nipponica). \"Both Japan specialists and medical anthropologists will be stimulated, challenged, and engaged by this book.\" (Medical Anthropology Newsletter).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50292687798545,"sku":"CIN0520052315G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521210540305,"sku":"NLS9780520052314","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520052315.jpg?v=1778579709"},{"product_id":"can-science-resolve-the-nature-nurture-debate-book-margaret-m-lock-9780745689975","title":"Can Science Resolve the Nature \/ Nurture Debate?","description":"Following centuries of debate about \"nature and nurture\" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.    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This highly-regarded and award-winning textbook (Winner of the 2010 Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology) retains the character and features of the previous edition. 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