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Amsterdam School
Author_Nelly Oudshoorn
Bernhard Zondek
Biomedical Discourse
body politics
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Comb Test
Dutch Gynecologists
endocrinology
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Ernst Laqueur
female
Female Sex Hormones
gendered medicine
gynecological
Gynecological Clinic
history of hormone research
Hormonal Model
Hormone Preparations
hormones
ideas
laqueur
male
Male Menopause
Male Sex Hormones
Male Urine
Material Authority
medical anthropology
Menstrual Disorders
Oral Progestins
Ovarian Preparations
pharmaceutical history
prescientific
Prescientific Ideas
Prostate Hypertrophy
reproductive technologies
scientific objectivity
sex
Sex Endocrinology
Sex Hormone
Sex Hormone Preparations
Sex Hormone Therapy
Sex Hormones
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415091916
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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It is now impossible to imagine a world without sex hormones. Women all over the world take hormonal pills to control their fertility and estrogen and progesterone have become the most widely used drugs in the history of medicine. But why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Nelly Oudshoorn challenges the idea that there exists such a thing as a natural body and shows how concepts such as the hormonal body assume the appearance of natural phenomena by virtue of the activities of scientists, rather than being rooted in nature. Beyond the Natural Body tells the fascinating story of scientists' search for the ovaries, testes and urine required to develop the hormonal concept; investigating how sex hormones have shaped our understanding of sex and the body, transforming science and medicine and ultimately redefining the relationship of women to reproduction. Nelly Oudshoorn concludes by evaluating the mixed blessings of the hormonal revolution.
Nelly Oudshoorn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam.
