الجمعة، 22 يوليو 2016

If we reverse the menopause, where will motherhood end? | Keren Levy

Scientists say they can rejuvenate ovaries. I’m surprised by how this prospect makes me nostalgic for the sense of an ending, the ‘natural order of things’

The term menopause derives from the Ancient Greek menos meaning month and pausis meaning a cessation. It is strangely fitting then, that it should be from a Greek research team that the news came this week of a new treatment that might reverse the process.

As a single woman in her 40s who would have loved to become a mother, I wrestled for a long time with the question of exactly when it is too late even to consider the possibility of pregnancy and of having my own child.

The removal of a limit can characterise medicine at its best, and at its most disconcerting

Related: What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George

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