THE GREATEST EXPERIMENT EVER PERFORMED ON WOMEN
Book ID/图书代码： 12070009B33167
English Summary/英文概要： A Library Journal Best Consumer Health Book of 2003 and an American Library Association/Booklist Editor’s Choice Book of 2003
"Barbara Seaman is the first prophet of the women’s health movement and her prophecies are still coming true."-Gloria Steinem
"A wake-up call to women about unquestioningly accepting doctors’ orders."-Booklist (starred review)
"Lively and impassioned . . . [Seaman] certainly makes her point."-Gina Kolata, The New York Times
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.
One of our most tireless health advocates, Barbara Seaman was the co-founder of the National Women’s Health Network and an advanced science writing fellow at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, and had been investigating and writing on synthetic estrogen since before her first groundbreaking book, The Doctor’s Case Against the Pill, was published in 1969.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当你一觉醒来，却被告知地球是平的，你会有什么感受？这就是大多数美国妇女在2002年7月9日的感觉。那一天，美国的各大媒体充斥着有关雌激素的负面报道，数百万女性必须停止风险系数太高的激素替代疗法。深受震惊的还有医生们。因为雌激素的显著功效，使之成为处方单上最为常见的名字之一。
在过去一个世纪，医学的发展使女性的寿命得以延长30余年。雌激素在保持女性身心健康方面功不可没。但它对女性身体的不良影响也渐渐浮出水面。正如芭芭拉•西门《对妇女进行的最伟大实验》书中指出，人类创造了雌激素神话，毁灭它并深受其害的也是人类本身。
雌激素被大量使用这么多年，与其说是医生或者科学家知道它的确能达到某种疗效，不如说是他们希望或相信雌激素能够做到。是药三分毒。雌激素产品不会消失，也不应消失。但希望它们被慎用。 (RY)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Barbara Seaman has been on the forefront of the women’s health movement since the publication of her groundbreaking Doctor’s Case Against the Pill in 1969. It exposed the risks of prescribing untested birth control pills to women and was the basis of Senate hearings resulting in the FDA to require informational inserts with oral contraceptives and other medicines.
Format:电子手稿
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