From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History

by Amy Koerber

Book Overview

In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health.

Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term "hormone" in 1905, hormones began to provide a chemical explanation for bodily phenomena that were previously understood in terms of "wandering wombs," humors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027108085X
• ISBN13: 9780271080857
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"