The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women

Barbara Seaman book – tracks the well-intentioned discovery of synthetic estrogen through the unconscionable and misleading promotion of a dangerous drug: DES

Exploding the Estrogen Myth

The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women
Exploding the Estrogen Myth

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.

Barbara Seaman’s groundbreaking book traces the history of estrogen use from its early purveyors, including a well-meaning British doctor who lost control of the marketing of DES and therefore inadvertently led to the DES baby crisis, to Nazi experimentation with women and estrogen, to the present, and looks at how an experiment of this proportion could have been conducted without oversight, intervention, or real knowledge as to what its effects would be.

Barbara Seaman turns up essential, often shocking, information that should have been part of public awareness but, only now, is coming to light.

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