Title | Premenstrual Syndrome [electronic resource] : Ethical and Legal Implications in a Biomedical Perspective / edited by Benson E. Ginsburg, Bonnie Frank Carter |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1987 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5275-4 |
Descript | XVI, 436 p. online resource |
Premenstrual Syndrome: Studies in Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving -- Ethical Issues -- The Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) Label: Benefit or Burden? -- Neuroscience Research and Premenstrual Syndrome: Scientific and Ethical Concerns -- Practical and Ethical Aspects of Pharmacotherapeutic Evaluation -- Legal Issues -- Premenstrual Syndrome, Mental Abnormality, and Legal Responsibility -- The Insanity Defense in Criminal Law -- Premenstrual Syndrome and Criminal Responsibility -- Criminal Law, Biological Psychiatry, and Premenstrual Syndrome: Conflicting Perspectives -- Social Issues -- Premenstrual Syndrome and the Medicalization of Menopause: A Sociological Perspective -- Menstrual Symptoms and Menstrual Beliefs: National and Cross-National Patterns -- Media Treatment of Premenstrual Syndrome -- A View from the Top of a Consumer Organization -- Psychological Issues -- Premenstrual Syndrome: Implications for Psychiatric Practice -- The Scientific Method and Ethical Treatment of Premenstrual Complaints -- Perceptions of Menstrual and Premenstrual Symptoms: Self-Definitional Processes at Menarche -- Biomedical Issues -- Historical Development of Progesterone Therapy -- Should Premenstrual Syndrome Be a Legal Defense? -- Premenstrual Syndrome: Characterization, Therapies, and the Law -- Controversies in Premenstrual Syndrome: Etiology and Treatment -- Pathophysiology and Treatment of Premenstrual Syndrome -- Dysphoric Premenstrual Changes: Are They Related to Affective Disorders? -- The Psychobiology of Premenstrual Syndromes: The Michigan Studies -- Conclusions -- The Multiple Facets of Eve: The Place of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Taxonomy of Affective Behavior -- Author Index