The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed On Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth

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With the ardent tone of a close friend, Barbara Seaman draws on 40 years of journalistic research to expose the menopause industry and shows how estrogen therapy often causes more problems - including breast cancer, heart attacks and strokes - than it cures. The Greatest Experiment tracks the well-intentioned discovery of synthetic estrogen through the unconscionable and misleading promotion of a dangerous drug. A wake-up call to women about unquestioningly accepting doctors' orders.' - Booklist'

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"Barbara Seaman is the first prophet of the women's health movement and her prophecies are still coming true." -Gloria Steinem

"Lively and impassioned ... [Seaman] certainly makes her point." -Gina Kolata, New York Times

"A wake-up call to women about unquestioningly accepting doctors orders." -Booklist

"The unmasking of HRT (hormone replacement therapy) is a major triumph for the women's health movement, which has claimed for decades that its supposed benefits are drug-industry hype. You can read all about it in Barbara Seaman's devastating expos, The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women." -Katha Pollitt, The Nation

Author Bio

One of the nations most tireless health advocates, BARBARA SEAMAN(1935-2008) co-founded the National Womens Health Network and pioneered a new style of health reporting that focused on patients rights. Her groundbreaking investigative book, The Doctors Case Against the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings in the 1970s that led to a warning label on oral contraceptives and the drastic lowering of estrogen doses due to dangerous health effects. Dedicated to reaching a wide audience, Seaman wrote columns for Brides Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and Ms., inspiring women around the world to take control of their own health. Seaman was a founding advisory board member of and key advisor to Seven Stories Press.