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Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug. Depression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks - just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80% of women who pop these tablets during their lifetimes. When the Pill was released, it was thought that women would not submit to taking a medication each day when they were not sick. Now the Pill is making women sick. However, there are a growing number of women looking for non-hormonal alternatives for preventing pregnancy. In a bid to spark the backlash against hormonal contraceptives, this book asks: Why can't we criticize the Pill?

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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Public health & preventive medicine

• Full title: Sweetening the Pill - or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control
• Author: Holly Grigg Spall
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781780996073
• ISBN: 1780996071
• ID: 01984078
• Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. September 2013

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