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Over the last 60 years, millions of women in the U.S. have been prescribed estrogen, but did they know all there is to know about this powerful hormone? In this groundbreaking book, renowned science journalist Barbara Seaman traces the history of estrogen use & misuse & investigates the pharmaceutical manufacturers who pushed aside any negative findings on estrogen to insinuate their products into the lives of women, old & young. Seaman turns up essential, often shocking information that should have been part of public awareness but only now is coming to light. One of the heroines of the women's health movement, she takes the pharmaceutical industry to task for relentlessly putting women's health at risk for the sake of increased profits.Seaman, Barbara is the author of 'Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women : Exploding the Estrogen Myth', published 2006 under ISBN 9780756798505 and ISBN 0756798507.
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