The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed On Women
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The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed On Women
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Author : Barbara Seaman
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed On Women written by Barbara Seaman and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Social Science categories.
With the ardent tone of a close friend, Barbara Seaman draws on forty years of journalistic research to expose the "menopause industry" and shows how estrogen therapy often causes more problems—including breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke—than it cures. The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women tracks the well-intentioned discovery of synthetic estrogen through the unconscionable and misleading promotion of a dangerous drug.
The No Nonsense Guide To Menopause
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Author : Barbara Seaman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-07-01
The No Nonsense Guide To Menopause written by Barbara Seaman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Health & Fitness categories.
For nearly as long as women have been around, they have been going through menopause. It is a bodily process as old as human birth, death, and of course, menstruation. Like many normal biological events, menopause was gradually medicalized, and with the rise of pharmaceutical medicine, women and their doctors were convinced that it was an "estrogen deficiency disease" that could be treated by supplementing the body's declining estrogen levels with hormones. By 2002 hormone treatment had been on the market for more than fifty years when doctors and women alike were shocked by the results of a massive clinical trial, the Women's Health Initiative: women taking hormones had more heart attacks, breast cancer, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, and blood clots than women who did not, and patients were left scrambling to find new and sometimes difficult answers to their menopause and midlife health questions. In The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, Barbara Seaman, a legendary figure in the women's health movement, and Laura Eldridge have written a comprehensive, easy-to-use resource that will give you all the information you need to make smart and informed decisions that will put you in control during this time of transition -- medically, psychologically, sexually, and even financially. With the latest research on everything from hormone replacement therapy to skin creams to preventing osteoporosis, The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause is the definitive manual on this important subject. You'll find out which changes are expected and natural and which can be a cause for concern; how hormonal shifts can affect your heart, your sex life, and your mood; and what you can do to address these issues. Whether the authors are discussing the risk factors for heart disease, the benefits of lifting weights, or if you should consider a hysterectomy, they offer unbiased, straightforward information and advice with a signature blend of wisdom and sensitivity. Perhaps most important, you'll learn how to evaluate what you read in magazines, hear on the news, and are told by your doctor, so you can distinguish between solid facts and dubious claims. By learning how to read and evaluate scientific studies and becoming familiar with what goes on behind the scenes in research labs, at doctors' offices, and at pharmaceutical companies, you will be able to become your own advocate. The next time you go to the doctor's office, you will know how to make the most of your visit and leave feeling confident, informed, and in command. There is no one way to experience menopause and no single way to handle the challenges it can present, but as a no-nonsense patient, you will have the tools you need to make decisions that are right for you.
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement Volume 1
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Author : Barbara Seaman
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement Volume 1 written by Barbara Seaman and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Social Science categories.
An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality to motherhood. Trail-blazing advocate Barbara Seaman and health activist Laura Eldridge bring the revolutionary ideas of several generations together in this powerful new book celebrating women’s bodies, and women’s voices. The more than two hundred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Y. Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Rossner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many others. With Voices of the Women’s Health Movement, for the first time, every woman and girl can experience in one place the powerful history of stirring words and strong female perspectives that have inspired countless women to take control of their health and their lives. Volume One highlights include influential writings on birth control; menstruation; pregnancy and birthing; motherhood; menopause; abortion; and lesbian, bisexual, and transgender health.
The Ethics Of Gender Specific Disease
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Author : Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012
The Ethics Of Gender Specific Disease written by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Health & Fitness categories.
In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably tied to their prescriptive roles within frames of reference. While the text mainly focuses on gender-specific diseases that affect women, Cutter also includes examples involving men, children, and members of the LGBT community.
The Contemporary Woman S Guide To Midlife
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Author : Carla Herrera
language : en
Publisher: Carla Herrera
Release Date : 2005-03
The Contemporary Woman S Guide To Midlife written by Carla Herrera and has been published by Carla Herrera this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with categories.
The Contemporary Womans Guide to Midlife is an autobiographical tour through midlife. The author takes the reader through her transformation in early midlife and allows a brief, but intimate, glimpse of one womans perspective on the process. Essay topics include the empty nest, menopause, values and relationships. A must read for anyone approaching or knowing someone who is approaching midlife or major life transitions.
Toxic Bodies
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Author : Nancy Langston
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-02
Toxic Bodies written by Nancy Langston and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-02 with Science categories.
In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then for miscarriage, while farmers gave cattle the hormone to promote rapid weight gain. Its residues, and those of other chemicals, in the American food supply are changing the internal ecosystems of human, livestock, and wildlife bodies in increasingly troubling ways. In this gripping exploration, Nancy Langston shows how these chemicals have penetrated into every aspect of our bodies and ecosystems, yet the U.S. government has largely failed to regulate them and has skillfully manipulated scientific uncertainty to delay regulation. Personally affected by endocrine disruptors, Langston argues that the FDA needs to institute proper regulation of these commonly produced synthetic chemicals.
The Great Experiment
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Author : Mart Grams
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-09-22
The Great Experiment written by Mart Grams and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-22 with History categories.
A free-market text on the emergence in America of a Great Experiment. Stemming from Alexander Hamilton's statememnt in Federalist #1 and stated two centuries later by Ronald Reagan: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." Hamilton wondered if men were capable of ruling themselves. This text deals with that hope and duty and my attempts over the years to express to my students a spark to relight that fire the Framers and Founders felt when creating the greatest experiment in freedom the world has seen.
Poor Women Powerful Men
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Author : Martha C Ward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-09
Poor Women Powerful Men written by Martha C Ward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-09 with Social Science categories.
Poor Women, Powerful Men chronicles the achievements and subsequent failure of the Louisiana Family Health Foundation, the most extensive family planning program ever to operate in the United States. Martha C. Ward's even-handed account reveals the mechanisms—of politics, poverty, and public health policies—at work in the perpetual controversies surrounding reproductive rights and the delivery of health care services to the poor. Ward's book begins in the early 1960s when Louisiana was among the most underdeveloped states and ranked at the bottom of all scales measuring illiteracy, illegitimacy, and infant mortality. Despite the free statewide Charity Hospital system, many routine preventive medical and public health services were not available to poor women and their children, particularly if they were black. But in the mid-1960s, a visionary group of doctors and health care practitioners began to clear the hurdles erected by law, church, and the medical-political establishment. By 1970 they had set up the first statewide family planning program for poor people in the United States. The Louisiana experiment was a spectacular success. The Ford, Rockefeller, and Kellogg Foundations poured millions of dollars into the program. The Great Society and War on Poverty programs placed a high priority on the health of poor mothers and infants. With the help of the population lobby—including Planned Parenthood and the Agency for International Development—the Family Health Foundation moved into Latin America and other developing areas. But in 1974, the bubble burst. Accusations of fiscal mismanagement, fraudulent statistics, patronage, and political payoffs led to federal indictments and jail sentences for top officials. Poor women and powerful men, the black and white communities, and the liberal and conservative medical factions were pitted against each other. With the collapse of the program, methods for handling the epidemic of adolescent pregnancies and the high infant mortality rate reverted to the state bureaucracies. Poor Women, Powerful Men is the first book-length account of the Louisiana experiment. In a clear and dispassionate voice, Ward demonstrates that many of the questions raised by the experiment persist. Is family planning an answer to the cycle of poverty, teenage pregnancies, and infant mortality? How can the conflict between private and public delivery of medical care be resolved? Where do the reproductive rights of women fit into governmentally supported birth control programs? We seem no closer today to answering these questions than the Louisiana Family Health Foundation was more than a decade ago.
Estrogen S Storm Season
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Author : Jerilynn C. Prior
language : en
Publisher: CeMCOR (Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research)
Release Date : 2017
Estrogen S Storm Season written by Jerilynn C. Prior and has been published by CeMCOR (Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Health & Fitness categories.
"This fiction book begins as eight frustrated midlife women-from all walks of life-meet Dr. Kailey Madrona, a woman specialist. All are in perimenopause, the long and chaotic transition to menopause. They are as different as women can be-yet they share the mysterious experiences of perimenopause, night sweats, flooding periods or mood swings. We follow these women as they consult Dr. Madrona, learn the surprising hormonal changes explaining their symptoms, get better or worse, and try or refuse therapies. As each woman lives through her particular challenge, we begin to see how we, too, can survive perimenopause! Dr. Jerilynn Prior tells the story of women in perimenopause through a unique blend of storytelling and scientific fact."--
The Great Experiment Simplified
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Author : Frank Thistlethwaite
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1988
The Great Experiment Simplified written by Frank Thistlethwaite and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.