July 16 -- It began back in the '60s. An influential book called Feminine Forever likened menopause to a "living decay." Its author, Dr. Robert A. Wilson, declared that menopause was a disease ...

Feminine Forever is loosely based on Robert A. Wilson MD’s 1966 book of the same name. In it, Wilson suggested that the menopause is a disease - much like diabetes ...

In the 1960s Dr. Wilson promoted estrogen as the older woman's salvation -- and I mean that literally. "Feminine Forever," his blockbuster book on menopause as an illness and estrogen as the cure ...