Aroused

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them.