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The estrogen elixir : a history of hormone replacement therapy in America / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

By: Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: ix, 351 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780801858765 (alk. paper); 9780801868214 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780801886027 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Estrogen -- Therapeutic use -- United States -- History | Estrogen | Estrogen -- Therapeutic useDDC classification: 618.1/75061 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Table of contents | Publisher description
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.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 618.17506 W323 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003688181

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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