The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women
Exploding the Estrogen Myth
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- Paperback
334 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
With the ardent tone of a close friend, Barbara Seaman draws on forty years of journalistic research to expose the “menopause industry” and shows how estrogen therapy often causes more problems-including breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke-than it cures. The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women tracks the well-intentioned discovery of synthetic estrogen through the unconscionable and misleading promotion of a dangerous drug.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583228623 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583228624 |
| Author: | Barbara Seaman |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 334 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 383g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 146mm |
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Critics Review
“Barbara Seaman is the first prophet of the women’s health movement and her prophecies are still coming true.” -Gloria Steinem
“Lively and impassioned … [Seaman] certainly makes her point.” -Gina Kolata, New York Times
“A wake-up call to women about unquestioningly accepting doctors orders.” -Booklist
“The unmasking of HRT (hormone replacement therapy) is a major triumph for the women’s health movement, which has claimed for decades that its supposed benefits are drug-industry hype. You can read all about it in Barbara Seaman’s devastating exposé, The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women.” -Katha Pollitt, The Nation
About The Author
Barbara Seaman
One of the nation’s most tireless health advocates, BARBARA SEAMAN(1935-2008) co-founded the National Women’s Health Network and pioneered a new style of health reporting that focused on patients’ rights. Her groundbreaking investigative book, The Doctor’s Case Against the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings in the 1970s that led to a warning label on oral contraceptives and the drastic lowering of estrogen doses due to dangerous health effects. Dedicated to reaching a wide audience, Seaman wrote columns for Brides Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Ms., inspiring women around the world to take control of their own health. Seaman was a founding advisory board member of and key advisor to Seven Stories Press.
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