The doctors' case against the pill /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Garden City, New York :
Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1980.
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| Edition: | Completely revised & updated edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by The Boston Women's Health Collective
- Introduction to the revised edition
- Who takes the pill
- Julie is not a statistic
- Blood-clotting: number one danger
- Heart disease and the pill
- Strokes and the pill
- Cancer and the pill
- Diabetes and the pill
- How the pill can spoil sex
- Sterility and the pill
- Genetic changes and the pill
- The pill and jaundice, thyroid function, weight gain, urinary infections, arthritis, skin and gum problems, etc.
- Depression and the pill
- Irritability and the pill
- The pill and nutrition
- There are better ways: alternatives to the pill
- Check out your checkup
- Appendix: Detailed patient labeling for oral contraceptives required by the Food and Drug Administration
- Notes and references
- Index.