Hormonal theory: a rebellious glossary.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erikainen, Sonja, editor.

Ford, Andrea, editor.

Malcolm, Roslyn, editor.

Raeder, Lisa, editor.

Roberts, Celia, editor.

Series:

Theory in the New Humanities.

Theory in the New Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Endocrinology.

Hormones.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Hormonal cascades / Roslyn Malcolm, Sonja Erikainen, Andrea Ford, Lisa Raeder, and Celia Roberts

Adrenaline / Celia Roberts

Angiotensin / Anne Pollock

Cortisol / Roslyn Malcolm

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) / Jacquelyne Luce and Anjali Rao-Herel

Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) / Norah MacKendrick

Dopamine / Tom Boylston

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) / Wibke Straube

Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) / Risa Cromer

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa) / Cronan Cronshaw

Growth hormone / Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) / Emily Ross

Hydrocortisone / Ian Harper

Mifepristone and misoprostol / Leah Eades

Oestrogen / Charlotte Jones and Kriss Fearon

Oxytocin / Arbel Griner and Rafaela Zorzanelli

Pitocin / Andrea Ford

Progesterone / Nayantara Sheoran Appleton

Progestogens / Mariana Rios Sandoval

Testosterone / Fabíola Rohden

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ford, Andrea Hormonal Theory

ISBN:

9781350323025

1-350-32302-0

9781350323018

1350323012

OCLC:

1414458237