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The estrogen elixir : a history of hormone replacement therapy in America / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Estrogen--Therapeutic use--United States--History.
- Estrogen.
- Hormones, Sex--Therapeutic use--United States--History.
- Hormones, Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 351 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing from a wide range of scholarly research, archival records, and interviews, The Estrogen Elixir provides valuable historical context for one of the most pressing debates in contemporary medicine.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- From the "neutral gender" to "feminine forever"
- Selling estrogen to doctors
- Selling estrogen to women
- From hero to villain: estrogen and endometrial cancer
- Enter the feminists: informing women about estrogen
- Enter the FDA: a patient package insert for estrogen
- Resurrecting estrogen, I: osteoporosis and medical science
- Resurrecting estrogen, II: osteoporosis and American culture
- Skeptics and believers: varieties of women's responses
- Weighing the benefits and risks of HRT: estrogen, heart disease, and breast cancer
- 1992: the year of the menopause
- Meno-boomers: another generation confronts estrogen
- The "gold standard": estrogen and the randomized controlled trials.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801892257
- 0801892252
- 9781435692657
- 1435692659
- OCLC:
- 299756466
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