The Estrogen Elixir
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel (Dean, Graduate Division, and Professor, History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco)
The Estrogen Elixir tells the story of the rises and falls of hormone replacement therapy and its promise to women to prolong youthfulness and forestall the diseases of aging. In 1992, after several decades on the market, estrogen became the most prescribed drug in America, but it lost popularity ten years later when the Women's Health Initiative reported that it increased the risk of heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, and breast cancer. Est...
