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Book Review


The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America. By Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii, 351 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8602-7.)
In this first comprehensive history of hormone replacement therapy (hrt) during and after menopause, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins builds on her previous work in hormonal medicine (On the Pill, 1998). She uses the hormone, estrogen, "as a lens through which to illuminate the complex and changing relationships between menopause and aging, drugs and alternatives, doctors and patients, and providers and consumers of health care" (p. 7). . . .
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