Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything (eBook)

Randi Hutter Epstein (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
272 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-65111-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Metabolism, behaviour, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals from a basement filled with jarred nineteenth-century brains to a twenty-first-century hormone clinic in Los Angeles.Brimming with fascinating anecdotes, illuminating new medical research and humorous details, Aroused introduces the leading scientists who made life-changing discoveries about the hormone imbalances that ail us, as well as the charlatans who used those discoveries to peddle false remedies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.6.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 10 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Schlagworte: Adrenal • animal research • Biology • chemicals • Cortisol • endocrine • endocrinology • Estrogen • Gender • harvey cushing • history of medicine • hormone replacement therapy • Hypothalamus • Medical History • menopause • Oxytocin • Popular science • Testosterone • Vasectomy
• ISBN-10: 0-393-65111-8 / 0393651118
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-65111-9 / 9780393651119