The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850-1950

Through a series of case studies drawn from Central Europe, the United States, and Britain, this book explores how the notion of sex hormones enabled scientists to remap the human body, encouraging hopes that glandular interventions could cure ills, malfunctions, and even social deviance in ways inconceivable to previous generations.

• | Author: Chandak Sengoopta
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2006
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780226748634
• | ISBN-10: 0226748634