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    The most secret quintessence of life: glands, sex, and bodies, 1850-1950

    Sengoopta, Chandak (2006) The most secret quintessence of life: glands, sex, and bodies, 1850-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226748634.

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    Abstract

    Table of Contents listing from the publisher website: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Gonads before the Endocrine Era 2. The Age of the Internal Secretions 3. Sexuality, Aging, and the Gonads: New Physiology and Old Values 4. Ending Gonadal Hegemony: Sex and the Endocrine Orchestra 5. The New Hormones in the Clinic Epilogue: The Gonads, the Brain, and the Neurohumoral Body Notes Index

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    Item Type: Book
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Depositing User: Sandra Plummer
    Date Deposited: 25 Nov 2008 16:33
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:48
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/752

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