Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control
- ISBN-10
- 178099608X
- ISBN-13
- 9781780996080
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-07
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Author
- Holy Grigg-Spall
Description
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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