ABSTRACT
You don’t have to be a very keen observer to notice that today hormones are everywhere: not only in our language but also in hospitals, chemists’ shops, even in women’s dressing-cases. The introduction of the hormonal model of the body has been very successful, particularly for women. Women all over the world take hormonal pills to control their fertility, for menstrual or menopausal problems, or as abortifacients. The hormones estrogen and progesterone have become so popular that they have developed into the most widely used drugs in the history of medicine (Wolffers et al. 1989).
