Open AccessMENSTRUAL CYCLE CONTROL - A CONTROVERSIAL EXAMPLE OF HUMAN ENHANCEMENT IN RELATION TO WOMEN'S BODY AND PSYCHE
Author(s) -
L. Martinelli,
Srećko Gajović,
Shim Jiwon
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychiatria danubina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1849-0867
pISSN - 0353-5053
DOI - 10.24869/psyd.2021.287
Subject(s) - psyche , medicalization , menstrual cycle , menstruation , relation (database) , psychology , control (management) , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , economics , computer science , database , hormone , management
By discussing the position of bio-conservatism and transhumanism, we question if the women menstrual cycle control would represent a new way toward a more responsive relation with one's own physical and mental health, a choice of freedom from undesired physiological conditions, a medicalization of a natural physiological event or an innovative carrier of social stigma against the women. We argue that the advancement of medical science may allow women a choice if to regulate own menstrual cycle, offering them as well a right to intervene responsibly on their own body and psyche. Accordingly, a post-human society could provide a suitable coexistence between women who claim menstruation as the biological essence and those who claim it as an option.