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This is an excellent book, and one I would heartily recommend to anyone with an interest in the history of the health sciences or the history of the women's movement.
Much has been written about post-menopausal estrogen therapy... This wonderful book tells the story.
A good read.
The Estrogen Elixir sets a high standard for future histories of pharmaceuticals and of aging.
This book takes an in-depth, socially analytical look at the evolution of menopausal hormone therapy in the United States, with a focus on estrogen since its discovery... Watkins tells the story accurately and objectively. No accusations and no praise, just the facts.
Watkins provides a fascinating, multi-faceted study of HRT, leaving no voices out of the debate.
Watkins presents a detailed account of the historical record of the subject.
More than a medical history of HRT. It is also a history of the medicalization of women's health and changing cultural attitudes toward aging, femininity, female identity, women's health activism, and the science of drug evaluations.
A fascinating aspect of Watkins's story is how drugs can be rebranded in the face of falling sales.
A significant work on the social history of American medicine and a major contribution to the growing literature on hormonal therapeutics and research.
Estrogen Elixir has many strengths... a commendable and welcome addition to emerging literature in modern women's health history.
An exemplary study of how the nation which first had access to oral contraceptives first came to terms with their advantages, and their drawbacks.
Intelligent and well-structured... An admirable exercise in social history.
A particularly fascinating issue, trim and focused, sophisticated and helpful, fresh and very interesting.
In every carefully organized, lucidly written chapter Watkins provides surprising corrections to conventional thinking about the new birth control method.
Anyone concerned with the debate over scientific advance and medical authority will find this a highly stimulating study.
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Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
368
ISBN
9780801894862
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. From the ''Neutral Gender'' to ''Feminine Forever''
3. Selling Estrogen to Doctors
4. Selling Estrogen to Women
5. From Hero to Villain: Estrogen and
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. From the ''Neutral Gender'' to ''Feminine Forever''
3. Selling Estrogen to Doctors
4. Selling Estrogen to Women
5. From Hero to Villain: Estrogen and Endometrial Cancer
6. Enter the Feminists: Informing Women about Estrogen
7. Enter the FDA: A Patient Package Insert for Estrogen
8. Resurrecting Estrogen, I: Osteoporosis and Medical Science
9. Resurrecting Estrogen, II: Osteoporosis and American Culture
10. Skeptics and Believers: Varieties of Women's Responses
11. Weighing the Benefits and Risks of HRT: Estrogen, Heart Disease, and Breast Cancer
12. 1992: The Year of the Menopause
13. Meno-Boomers: Another Generation Confronts Estrogen
14. The ''Gold Standard'': Estrogen and the Randomized Controlled Trials
Notes
Index
Featured Contributor
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is a professor in the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950–1970, also published by Johns Hopkins.Resources
