Free Download Elizabeth M. Miller, "Thicker Than Water: A Social and Evolutionary Study of Iron Deficiency in Women"
English | ISBN: 0197665713 | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 8 MB
A powerful and critical investigation of iron deficiency in women throughout evolutionary history and in our current society
Women of the world are beset by a hidden hunger: iron deficiency. Up to 40% of reproductive-aged women across the globe have iron deficiency anemia, and it contributes to 20% of maternal deaths. Despite these dire statistics, women are not routinely screened for iron deficiency. Iron deficiency has been used as a tool to control, categorize, and even ignore women and their suffering. Biomedical remedies – mostly iron supplementation – are unequally and indifferently applied to global populations of women.
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