Hormones of life : endocrinology, the pharmaceutical industry, and the dream of a remedy for sterility, 1930-1970 / Christer Nordlund.
- Nordlund, Christer, 1970-
- Date:
- 2011
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Sagamore Beach : Science History Publications, 2011.
Physical description
x, 297 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Contributors
Contents
Hormones and hormone therapy : historical background -- Axel Westman, endocrinology, and the population question -- Lion of the north : Leo and the first hormone drugs -- Inventing Gonadex -- Launching Gonadex -- The reception of Gonadex -- New Gonadex -- More than Gonadex -- In the shadow of Homogonal.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Translated from the Swedish.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineSO.393.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780881354751
- 0881354759