Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary (Theory in the New Humanities)
by: Andrea Ford (Editor)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 7 Mar. 2024
Language: English
Print Length: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 1350322997
ISBN-13: 9781350322998
Book Description
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.
未经允许不得转载：电子书百科大全 » Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary (Theory in the New Humanities)
评论前必须登录！
登陆 注册