The most secret quintessence of life : sex, glands, and hormones, 1850-1950 / Chandak Sengoopta.

  • Sengoopta, Chandak.
Date:
2006
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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xii, 354 pages ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-329) and index.

Contents

The gonads before the endocrine era -- The age of the internal secretions -- Sexuality, aging, and the gonads: new physiology and old values -- Ending gonadal hegemony: sex and the endocrine orchestra -- The new hormones in the clinic -- Epilogue: the gonads, the brain, and the neurohumoral body.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 0226748634