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A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously being shaped by them. Hormones are increasingly central not only to medical and other body-shaping practices and contemporary science, but also environmentally-oriented conversations. Throughout Hormonal Theory, authors trace how biomedical, social, political, and experiential forces entangle to produce hormones as we know them today. It illuminates how hormones emerge and exist as complex entities that permeate every sphere of our lives.
Each glossary entry takes a particular hormonal compound as its starting point, yet works to elaborate and complicate understandings of hormones as distinct biological or chemical entities. The entries collectively show how hormones never operate in isolation from other hormones, nor bodies in isolation from other human and non-human bodies and their socio-ecological surroundings. Indeed, they cascade into one another. This volume, then, is not simply a qualitatively-rich companion to medical knowledge about hormones, but a challenge to the conceptual underpinnings of current dominant understandings of disease, wellness, and normalcy.
From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously being shaped by them. Hormones are increasingly central not only to medical and other body-shaping practices and contemporary science, but also environmentally-oriented conversations. Throughout Hormonal Theory, authors trace how biomedical, social, political, and experiential forces entangle to produce hormones as we know them today. It illuminates how hormones emerge and exist as complex entities that permeate every sphere of our lives.
Each glossary entry takes a particular hormonal compound as its starting point, yet works to elaborate and complicate understandings of hormones as distinct biological or chemical entities. The entries collectively show how hormones never operate in isolation from other hormones, nor bodies in isolation from other human and non-human bodies and their socio-ecological surroundings. Indeed, they cascade into one another. This volume, then, is not simply a qualitatively-rich companion to medical knowledge about hormones, but a challenge to the conceptual underpinnings of current dominant understandings of disease, wellness, and normalcy.
A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously ...
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Sonja Erikainen is Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Andrea Ford is Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Rosalyn Malcolm is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Durham University, UK.
Lisa Raeder is a qualitative researcher and PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Celia Roberts is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Australian National University, Australia.
Andrea Ford is Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Rosalyn Malcolm is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Durham University, UK.
Lisa Raeder is a qualitative researcher and PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Celia Roberts is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Australian National University, Australia.
Sonja Erikainen is Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Andrea Ford is Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Rosalyn Malcolm is Assistant Pr...
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