num_pages: 352
description: Now in paperback, Barbara Seaman's groundbreaking book that blows the lid off the wholesale use of estrogen to treat menopause.Over the last sixty years, millions women in the United States were prescribed estrogen, but did they know all there is to know about this powerful hormone?In this groundbreaking book, Barbara Seaman traces the history of estrogen use and misuse and investigates the pharmaceutical manufacturers who pushed aside any negative findings on estrogen to insinuate their products into the lives of women, old and young. Seaman turns up essential, often shocking, information that should have been part of public awareness but, only now, is coming to light.
language: English
title: The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth
titlecomplete: The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth
genres: History, Womens, Science, Health, Medicine, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 50
publisher: Hyperion