HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim
The unheard voices of women damaged by HRT
Slingshot Publications
ISBN: 0-9519646-7-4
385 pages with photographs and full index.
Type set by Viviana D. Guinarte
Cover Design and photo lay out: Andy Dark
Photographs: Bob Schweizer
Editing Rose Shepherd
Price: £12.00 / E18.00 / $20.00
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In 1996 Maggie Tuttle managed to come off HRT. Coping with adverse reactions, she placed an ad 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.
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Maggie Tuttle is a life time campaigner, speaking out for women in difficulties. For ten years she has helped women suffering adverse reactions to HRT, standing up to pharmaceutical companies, company loyal doctors and sometimes an indifferent media. Her tireless support for women affected by HRT has been at considerable cost to her self, both financially and emotionally.
Martin Walker is a campaigner and writer. HRT, Licensed to Kill and Maim is his ninth book. His other books include, with Geoff Coggan, Frightened for My Life: An account of deaths in British Prisons (1982), With Extreme Prejudice: An Investigation in Police Vigilantism in Manchester (1986) and Dirty Medicine: Science, Big Business and the assault on Natural Health Care (1993).
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BM Box 8314,
London WC1N 3XX
This book can be bought from these sites after the launch.
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To place advanced orders (to be sent out after the book is launched on June 21st) of ten or more copies of this book at the reduced price of £10 a copy plus postage and packing e-mail Maggie. healthcentre@losbelones.com
Journalists and others wanting review copies should e-mail Maggie. healthcentre@losbelones.com giving their workplace phone number
To order this book by post after July 21st, go to
http://www.slingshotpublications.com
or write to
Slingshot Publications, B.M.Box 8314, London WC1N 3XX
or
email to Maggie. healthcentre@losbelones.com
No books will be sent out without payment being received in advance.
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Single copies £12.00 plus 2.50 postage and packaging.
Prices for bulk copies or for retail distribution can be discussed by e-mailing Maggie at:
healthcentre@losbelones.com