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
The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Books
Hormones, psychology and behaviour, and steroid hormone administration / general editor for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme ; assisted by Margaret P. Cameron.
Conference on the Influence of Steroid Hormones on Psychological and Behavioural Reactions (1951 : London, England)Date: 1952- Books
Molecular mechanisms of gonadal hormone action / edited by J.A. Thomas, R.L. Singhal.
Thomas, J. A. (John A.), 1933-Date: 1975- Books
Hormone Research Laboratory : 1950-1970.
University of California, Berkeley. Hormone Research Laboratory.Date: [1970]- Ephemera
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Hormones of the adrenal cortex / Searle Diagnostic Hormone Assay Laboratory.
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]- Books
Hormone chemistry / W.R. Butt.
Butt, Wilfrid R.Date: ©1975-1976