Zakłócony bezruch. Rozwój endokrynologii na początku XX wieku
Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieh-Century Rise of Endocrinology

Summary/Abstract: Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-centuryemergence of the word “hormone” and the impact of this word on expert understandingsof women’s health. Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term “hormone” in 1905,hormones began to provide a chemical explanation for bodily phenomena that werepreviously understood in terms offered by discourses of hysteria. Using the metaphorsof “frontier” and “standstill,” Koerber demonstrates that the discovery of hormones wasnot so much a revolution as a necessity: forcing a transformation in the old ways ofthinking to meet the increasingly scientific demands placed on medical practice at theturn of the century.

• Details
• Contents