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Paperback: 380 pages
Publisher: Sling-Shot Press (21 June 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0951964674
ISBN-13: 978-0951964675
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm

HRT - Licensed to Kill and Maim

Author: Martin J Walker

HRT: Licensed to Kill and Maim, was launched on the 21st June 2006 at a press conference held at the Rose View Hotel, Muswell Hill, London.

In 1996 Maggie Tuttle managed to come off HRT. Coping with adverse reactions, she placed an add in a newspaper asking if anyone else was having a similar experience. Six years later when Maggie folded the Menopausal Helpline, she had received over 10,000 letters. Licensed to Kill and Maim, gives a voice to the women who wrote to her, while investigating the history and marketing of HRT. The book asks questions about a health care system in which pharmaceutical companies first create illnesses, then create drugs to ‘cure’ them.

'I have never been a fan of HRT for various reasons. Reading through Martin Walker's well researched, clearly documented and quite terrifying book has confirmed to me that HRT is one of the great mistakes of the 20th and 21st centuries and should be consigned to the history books as soon as possible!' Jenny Seagrove actress and campaigner

'A Japanese proverb says “The truth is always disturbing.” Martin Walker is one of those rare individuals who is willing to dig deeply into the illusion, insult and inhumanity that is done under the name of science and medicine. Motives usually have more to do with money, power and control than the relief of suffering. His books are always shocking but far closer to the truth than you are likely to find elsewhere.' Patrick Holford, founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition.