Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book : Making Informed Choices About Menopause (Paperback)

by Susan M. Md Love (Author), Karen Lindsey (Author)

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In an empowering and demystifying book about menopause, Dr. Susan Love, a noted breast surgeon and women's health advocate, tells it straight about hormones. "Hormone therapy is neither a fountain of youth nor an 'evil empire,'" Love writes with her coauthor, Karen Lindsey. "I can't tell you in this book whether or not you should take hormones, but I can spell out the pros and cons, examining the various promises that have been made for menopausal hormone therapy, and letting you know what the side effects and dangers can be."

But even before she gets into the promises and the pros and cons, Love lets the reader know what menopause is biologically, and how its symptoms can vary widely. Particularly fascinating is the second chapter, titled "The Medicalization of Menopause." Love's examination of how women in other cultures actually look forward to menopause, and of how the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry have a vested interested in making menopause a disease, is a convincing one. It puts menopause and hormone therapy into a whole new light.

Chapter by chapter, Love reviews the scientific evidence for the promised benefits of hormone therapy--protection from osteoporosis and heart disease--and for the potential risks--increased chance of breast and endometrial cancer. And she answers almost every imaginable question about alternatives to hormones, from dietary changes to exercise to acupuncture to herbs.

While Love and Lindsey, who worked together previously on Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, are up-front about their perspective on hormone therapy, they also give women the information they need about the various hormones on the market and provide a questionnaire to help them assess their values, so that readers can make their own informed choice about hormones during menopause.

From Library Journal
Love, director of the Revlon/UCLA Breast Center, is a leading world expert in breast cancer research and author of what has been called the bible of breast care, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book (LJ 6/1/95. 2d ed.). Here, Love provides an intimate insider's look at menopause. At the core of this well-organized and clearly written book is an in-depth discussion of the risk factors associated with hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Love explores therapy options with a three-tiered system?lifestyle, alternatives, and drugs and surgery?and helps readers clarify their choices with a series of self-surveys. This well-referenced resource includes five appendixes on practitioners, product sources, patient education materials, publications, and lists of support organizations. Highly recommended for all consumer health collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/96; Love is profiled in Karen Stabiner's To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer, forthcoming from Delacorte in May.?Ed.]?Rebecca Cress-Ingebo, Wright State Univ. Lib., Dayton, Ohi.
-?Rebecca Cress-Ingebo, Wright State Univ. Lib., Dayton, Ohio
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (April 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081296392X
• ISBN-13: 978-0812963922
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
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