1970, ISBN: 9780801886027

In the first complete history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Elizabeth Siegel Watkins describes the development, spread, and shifting role of HRT in America from the early twentiet… More...

In the first complete history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Elizabeth Siegel Watkins describes the development, spread, and shifting role of HRT in America from the early twentieth century to the present.Today, information about HRT is almost always accompanied by a laundry list of health risks. While physicians and pharmaceutical companies have striven to develop the safest possible treatment for the symptoms of menopause and aging, many specialists question whether HRT should be prescribed at all. 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."Much has been written about post-menopausal estrogen therapy... This wonderful book tells the story." -- New England Journal of Medicine"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." -- JAMA"A significant work on the social history of American medicine and a major contribution to the growing literature on hormonal therapeutics and research." -- Isis"Sets a high standard for future histories of pharmaceuticals and of aging." -- Journal of American History"Watkins provides a fascinating, multi-faceted study of HRT, leaving no voices out of the debate." -- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences"A good read." -- Journal of Clinical InvestigationElizabeth 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. Media > Book, [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press]<

1970, ISBN: 9780801886027

In the first complete history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Elizabeth Siegel Watkins describes the development, spread, and shifting role of HRT in America from the early twentiet… More...

In the first complete history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Elizabeth Siegel Watkins describes the development, spread, and shifting role of HRT in America from the early twentieth century to the present.Today, information about HRT is almost always accompanied by a laundry list of health risks. While physicians and pharmaceutical companies have striven to develop the safest possible treatment for the symptoms of menopause and aging, many specialists question whether HRT should be prescribed at all. 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."Much has been written about post-menopausal estrogen therapy... This wonderful book tells the story." -- New England Journal of Medicine"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." -- JAMA"A significant work on the social history of American medicine and a major contribution to the growing literature on hormonal therapeutics and research." -- Isis"Sets a high standard for future histories of pharmaceuticals and of aging." -- Journal of American History"Watkins provides a fascinating, multi-faceted study of HRT, leaving no voices out of the debate." -- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences"A good read." -- Journal of Clinical InvestigationElizabeth 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. Media > Book, [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press]<