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Eden (2024) ⭐ 6.5 | Adventure, Drama, History
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Eden (2024) ⭐ 6.5 | Adventure, Drama, History
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If you've watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, you might remember this scene from season 2. It's set in the 1950s, and a new mother is offered "a shot" to dry up her milk. The nurse presents it matter-of-factly, as if it's standard procedure. How different it is now! From the 1940s through the 1970s, hospitals routinely gave women Diethylstilbestrol (DES - a synthetic estrogen) to suppress lactation. It was marketed as a "wonder drug" and often administered without informed consent. Many women wer
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If you've watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, you might remember this scene from season 2. It's set in the 1950s, and a new mother is offered "a shot" to dry up her milk. The nurse presents it matter-of-factly, as if it's standard procedure. How different it is now! From the 1940s through the 1970s, hospitals routinely gave women Diethylstilbestrol (DES - a synthetic estrogen) to suppress lactation. It was marketed as a "wonder drug" and often administered without informed consent. Many women wer
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