Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women

With the ardent tone of a close friend, Barbara Seaman draws on forty years of journalistic research to expose the "e;menopause industry"e; 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.