Vitamin therapy, hormone therapy, aromatherapy. Tabloids, op-eds, Phil, Sally, Oprah. Yesterday, women confided in their doctors about health problems and received private, albeit sometimes paternalistic, attention. Today, women's health issues are headline material. Topics that once raised a blush now raise a blare of conflicting medical news and political advocacy.
Women welcome the new recognition of their health concerns.
At the same time, they need help in sorting through the flood of reports on scientific studies, claims of success for new treatments, and just plain myths. In Her Own Right. Beryl Lieff Benderly synthesizes this expertise into a readable overview of women's health. Benderly highlights what we know about the health differences between men and women and the mysteries that remain to be solved. Postmenopausal life and issues of aging, as health choices made decades earlier come home to roost.