Lessons from the history of hormone replacement therapy.

摘要

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's classic novel Crime and Punishment formulates and executes a plan to kill a rich lady for her money and justifies it by the doctrine that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. In Russian language 'raskolnik' means 'schism', that is 'the offense of attempting to produce a formal breach of union'. The history of rise and fall of hormone replacement therapy indeed reflects such a 'raskolnik' science at display, making mockery to the spirit of credible science and humanist ethical science.