Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Jun 2018 · W. W. Norton & Company
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A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018
“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee
“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee
Metabolism, behavior, 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 reveals the “invigorating history” (Nature) of hormones and the age-old quest to control them through the back rooms, basements, and labs where endocrinology began.
A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018
“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: ...
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Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH, is the writer in residence and director of the writing concentration at Yale School of Medicine’s Program for Humanities in Medicine. The author of Aroused, a history of hormones, and Get Me Out, a history of childbirth, she lives in New York City with her husband and has four grown children.
Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH, is the writer in residence and director of the writing concentration at Yale School of Medicine’s Program for Humanities in Medicine. The author of Aroused, a history of hormones, and Get Me Out, a history of childbirth, she lives in New York City with her husband a...
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