Hormones of life : endocrinology, the pharmaceutical industry, and the dream of a remedy for sterility, 1930-1970 / Christer Nordlund.

Sagamore Beach : Science History Publications, 2011.

x, 297 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Swedish.