Author: Elizabeth Siegel Watkins 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 medicalizationand subsequent efforts toward the demedicalizationof menopause and aging affected the role of estrogen as a medical therapy. Telling the story from multiple perspectivesphysicians, pharmaceutical manufacturers, government regulators, feminist health activists, and the media, as well as women as patients and consumersshe reveals the striking parallels between estrogens 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. Praise for Watkins' On the Pill: An exemplary study of how the nation which first had access to oral contraceptives first came to terms with their advantages, and their drawbacks.Times Literary Supplement Intelligent and well-structured . . . An admirable exercise in social history.Nature A particularly fascinating issue, trim and focused, sophisticated and helpful, fresh and very interesting.American Historical Review In every carefully organized, lucidly written chapter Watkins provides surprising corrections to conventional thinking about the new birth control method.Journal of American History Anyone concerned with the debate over scientific advance and medical authority will find this a highly stimulating study.Journal of American Studies

Author: Stephen G. Kurtz These eight original essays by a group of America's most distinguished scholars include the following themes: the meaning and significance of the Revolution; the long-term, underlying causes of the war; violence and the Revolution; the military conflict; politics in the Continental Congress; the role of religion in the Revolution; and the effect of the war on the social order. This is the product of the celebrated Symposium on the American Revolution held in 1971 by the institute.Originally published 1973.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author: Edited by Dianne Dodd and Deborah Gorham This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for a place in the medical hierarchy. The bitter conflict for control of birthing and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the emerging male-dominated medical profession is examined from new perspectives.

Author: Norma Goldman Michael Rossi Exhibiting the same clarity as Latin via Ovid, this student workbook parallels the text's forty lessons and is the ideal supplement to classroom recitation and exercises. Drills in grammar and vocabulary, combined with innovative directions for practice, facilitate the student's acquisition of Latin. Teachers: When ordering Latin via Ovid and the audio material, be sure to order the free Teacher's Manual (not sent to students) that contains all of the translations of the Latin stories, plus each chapter's Exercise V, which requires the translation from English into Latin. Games and songs are included. Please request this guide by calling us at 313-577-6126.