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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.

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"The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now, been plumbed and digested. In this book, Chandak Sengoopta offers both a history of hormone discovery and a chronicle of how this discovery transformed our concepts of the body and how our existing concepts of sex and sexuality, in turn, informed our concepts for understanding hormones." - Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of Sexing the Body"

The Most Secret Quintessence of Life Sex Glands and Hormones 18501950

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226748634, 978-0226748634
      ISBN10: 0226748634

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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      "The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now, been plumbed and digested. In this book, Chandak Sengoopta offers both a history of hormone discovery and a chronicle of how this discovery transformed our concepts of the body and how our existing concepts of sex and sexuality, in turn, informed our concepts for understanding hormones." - Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of Sexing the Body"

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