Unnecessary Hysterectomies, the Second Most Common Major Surgery in the United States

Unnecessary Hysterectomies, the Second Most Common Major Surgery in the United States
Title Unnecessary Hysterectomies, the Second Most Common Major Surgery in the United States PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging
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Pages 128
Release 1993
Genre Medical
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Unnecessary Hysterectomies, the Second Most Common Major Surgery in the United States

Unnecessary Hysterectomies, the Second Most Common Major Surgery in the United States
Title Unnecessary Hysterectomies, the Second Most Common Major Surgery in the United States PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging
Publisher
Pages 140
Release 1993
Genre Medical
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Title Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents PDF eBook
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Pages 1064
Release 1994
Genre Government publications
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Title Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications PDF eBook
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Release 1994
Genre Government publications
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The Estrogen Elixir

The Estrogen Elixir
Title The Estrogen Elixir PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 364
Release 2007-04-16
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0801886023

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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 society shaped the dissemination and reception of HRT and how the medicalization—and subsequent efforts toward the demedicalization—of menopause and aging affected the role of estrogen as a medical therapy. Telling the story from multiple perspectives—physicians, pharmaceutical manufacturers, government regulators, feminist health activists, and the media, as well as women as patients and consumers—she reveals the striking parallels between estrogen’s history as a medical therapy and broad shifts in the role of medicine in an aging society. Today, information about HRT is almost always accompanied by a laundry list of health risks. While physicians and pharmaceutical companies have striven to develop the safest possible treatment for the symptoms of menopause and aging, many specialists question whether HRT should be prescribed at all. Drawing from a wide range of scholarly research, archival records, and interviews, The Estrogen Elixir provides valuable historical context for one of the most pressing debates in contemporary medicine.

Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy

Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy
Title Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy PDF eBook
Author Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 228
Release 2013-03-09
Genre Medical
ISBN 9401721599

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Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually of premature death. Although medical progress has slowed cancer mortality, its incidence is increasing roughly six times faster than cancer mortality is decreasing. Breast cancer, in particular, has been increasing about one percent each year since 1973. At least two of the factors responsible for this surge in breast cancer are women's use of medically-prescribed synthetic hormones and the exposure of the entire population to chemicals such as dioxin. Both exposures increase the likelihood of breast cancer. Although many ethicists worry about involuntary societal imposition of chemicals such as dioxin, through industrial and agricultural processes, allegedly voluntary exposures also constitute both, a public-health problem and a biomedical-ethics difficulty. Physicians recommend synthetic hormones, for example, to women who apparently take them voluntarily. In the case of in vitro fertilization, doctors prescribe hormones to induce egg production and to increase the chances of reproduction for couples who are unable to have children. Despite the benefits of medical technologies such as hormone stimulation and in vitro fertilization, they also carry great risks. The price that childless women pay, for their opportunity to have children through in vitro fertilization, may be their own increased risk of diseases - such as breast cancer - that are hormone dependent.

Legislative Calendar, One Hundred Third Congress

Legislative Calendar, One Hundred Third Congress
Title Legislative Calendar, One Hundred Third Congress PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher
Pages 148
Release 1995
Genre Legislative calendars
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