A Life Lived Chronically: Memoir of a DES Daughter

Before she was born, a drug prescribed to millions of pregnant women had already shaped Claire R. Silverstone-Bright's future.

In A Life Lived Chronically: Memoir of a DES Daughter, Claire tells the powerful story of growing up as part of a generation unknowingly exposed in the womb to diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic hormone once widely prescribed to prevent miscarriage. Marketed as a medical breakthrough, DES would later be linked to serious health consequences for the daughters born ...