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      On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970

      Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

      In this look at the Pill’s cultural and medical history, the author re-examines the scientific and ideological forces that led to its development, the part women played in debates over…

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      The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America

      Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

      Describing the development, spread, and shifting role of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in America since the early twentieth century, this book explores how the interplay between science and society shaped…

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      Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History

      With Americans paying more than $200 billion in 2005 for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. This work examines the meanings behind the pharmaceutical…

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      Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History

      With Americans paying more than $200 billion in 2005 for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. This work examines the meanings behind the pharmaceutical…

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      Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America

      Examining drugs individually, as classes, and as part of the social geography of health care, this title explores the history of prescribing, including over-the-counter contraceptives, the patient’s experience of filling…

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      Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America

      Examining drugs individually, as classes, and as part of the social geography of health care, this title explores the history of prescribing, including over-the-counter contraceptives, the patient’s experience of filling…

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      Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

      When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had…

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      The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America

      Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (Dean, Graduate Division, and Professor, History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco)

      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.

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