Title: The estrogen errors : why progesterone is better for women's health /
Authors: Baxter, Susan, 1954-; Prior, Jerilynn C., 1943-
Publisher: Praeger Publishers,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Progesterone therapeutic use; Estrogen Replacement Therapy adverse effects; Menopause physiology; Menopause drug effects; Menopause Hormone therapy United States.; Progesterone Therapeutic use United States.; Perimenopause Hormone therapy United States.; United States; United States
Abstract: The Women's Health Initiative study in the 1990s upended the conventional wisdom concerning hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women. Medical writer Baxter (Simon Fraser U.) and Prior (medicine, U. of British Columbia) trace the history of the estrogen-deficiency disease paradigm of menopause. Instead of the myth that estrogen is a female hormone that needs replenishing, these self-identified feminists advocate consideration of the complexities of what is 'normal' and the use of progesterone among options to ease menopausal symptoms. Appendices include further information about perimenopause, "the forgotten transition," and menopause management. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Contents: pt. 1. Women and hormones -- Introduction & overview -- Circadian rhytyms, menstrual cycles and culture -- Perimenopause: the forgotten transition -- pt. 2. Hormones and health -- The medicalization of menopause -- Hearts and minds -- The basics of bone -- Breasts, breast cancer, and overcoming our fears.