Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology -- Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space -- Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis -- Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of …
"Through a series of case studies drawn from Central Europe, the United States, and Britain, The Most Secret Quintessence of Life explores how the notion of sex hormones enabled scientists to remap the human body, encouraging hopes that glandular interventions could cure ills, m…
"This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals. It is designed to provide a readable, coordinated description of reproductive basics in each group of vertebrates as well as an in…