Stories
- Book extract
The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
- Article
Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
- Article
Crones
Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Growth Hormone overnight studies'
Date: 1986-1987Reference: PP/SRA/A/4/11Part of: Dr Shirley Ratcliffe and the Edinburgh MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit Study of Long Term Outcomes for Children Born with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities- Journals
- Online
Growth hormone & IGF research : official journal of the Growth Hormone Research Society and the International IGF Research Society.
Date: ©1998-- Archives and manuscripts
'Urinary Growth Hormone - paper'
Date: 1992Reference: PP/SRA/A/4/12Part of: Dr Shirley Ratcliffe and the Edinburgh MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit Study of Long Term Outcomes for Children Born with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities- Archives and manuscripts
'Urinary Growth Hormone, draft paper'
Date: 1990sReference: PP/SRA/A/4/13Part of: Dr Shirley Ratcliffe and the Edinburgh MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit Study of Long Term Outcomes for Children Born with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities
- Digital Images
- Online
Growth hormone producing cell from the pituitary gland
University of Edinburgh