Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
2 Books Written
The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America
by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
Rating: 3.7 ⭐
In the first complete history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Elizabeth Siegel Watkins illuminates the complex and changing relationship between the medical treatment of menopause and cultural conceptions of aging. Describing the development, spread, and shifting role of HRT in America from the early twentieth century to the present, Watkins explores how the interplay between science and soc
On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970
by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
Rating: 3.6 ⭐
"In 1968, a popular writer ranked the pill's importance with the discovery of fire and the developments of tool-making, hunting, agriculture, urbanism, scientific medicine, and nuclear energy. Twenty-five years later, the leading British weekly, the Economist, listed the pill as one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The image of the oral contraceptive as revolutionary persists in popular c