The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed On Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth - Softcover

Seaman, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786887346 ISBN 13: 9780786887347

Publisher: Hyperion, 2004

Synopsis

Now in paperback, Barbara Seaman's groundbreaking book that blows the lid off the wholesale use of estrogen to treat menopause.

Over the last sixty years, millions women in the United States were prescribed estrogen, but did they know all there is to know about this powerful hormone In this groundbreaking book, Barbara Seaman traces the history of estrogen use and misuse and investigates the pharmaceutical manufacturers who pushed aside any negative findings on estrogen to insinuate their products into the lives of women, old and young. Seaman turns up essential, often shocking, information that should have been part of public awareness but, only now, is coming to light.

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About the Author

A women's health advocate for more than 40 years, Barbara Seaman is a cofounder of the National Women's Health Network, a women's advocacy group in Washington, D.C. that refuses money from the drug industry as part of its charter. A contributor to the New York Times and the Washington Post, she is the author of The Doctors' Case Against the Pill, For Women Only: Your Guide to Health Empowerment, Free and Female, Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones, and Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann. Seaman lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786887346
• ISBN 13: 9780786887347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352