Hormonal Theory (eBook, PDF)

A Rebellious Glossary
Redaktion: Ford, Andrea; Roberts, Celia; Raeder, Lisa; Erikainen, Sonja; Malcolm, Roslyn

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously being shaped by them. Hormones are increasingly central not only to medical and other body-shaping practices and contemporary science, but also environmentally-oriented conversations. Throughout Hormonal Theory, authors trace how biomedical, social, political, and experiential forces entangle to produce hormones as we know them today. It illuminates how hormones emerge and exist as complex entities that permeate every sphere of our lives.

Each glossary entry takes a particular hormonal compound as its starting point, yet works to elaborate and complicate understandings of hormones as distinct biological or chemical entities. The entries collectively show how hormones never operate in isolation from other hormones, nor bodies in isolation from other human and non-human bodies and their socio-ecological surroundings. Indeed, they "cascade" into one another. This volume, then, is not simply a qualitatively-rich companion to medical knowledge about hormones, but a challenge to the conceptual underpinnings of current dominant understandings of disease, wellness, and normalcy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350323001
• Artikelnr.: 69635175

Autorenporträt

Sonja Erikainen is Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK. Andrea Ford is Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK. Rosalyn Malcolm is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Durham University, UK. Lisa Raeder is a qualitative researcher and PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Celia Roberts is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Hormonal Cascades: An Introduction 1. Adrenaline
Celia Roberts (Australian National University
Canberra) 2. Angiotensin
Anne Pollock (King's College London
UK) 3. Cortisol
Roslyn Malcolm (Durham University
UK) 4. Diethylstilbestrol (DES)
Jacquelyne Luce (Mount Holyoke College
USA)
Anjali Rao-Herel (Mount Holyoke College
USA) with the Feminist Technoscience Governance Collaboratory 5. Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT)
Norah MacKendrick (Rutgers University
USA) 6. Dopamine
Tom Boylston (University of Edinburgh
UK) 7. Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)
Wibke Straube (Karlstad University
Sweden) 8. Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Lutenizing Hormone (LH)
Risa Cromer (Purdue University
USA) 9. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa)
Cronan Cronshaw (Lancaster University
UK) 10. Growth Hormone
Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz (University of Warsaw
Poland) 11. Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)
Emily Ross (University of Sheffield
UK) 12. Hydrocortisone
Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh
UK) 13. Mifepristone and Misoprostol
Leah Eades (University of Edinburgh
UK) 14. Oestrogen
Charlotte Jones (Swansea University
UK) and Kriss Fearon (De Montfort University
UK) 15. Oxytocin
Arbel Griner (Princeton University
USA) and Rafaela Zorzanelli (University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil) 16. Pitocin
Andrea Ford (University of Edinburgh
UK) 17. Progesterone
Nayantara Sheoran Appleton (Victoria University of Wellington
Aotearoa New Zealand) 18. Progestogens
Mariana Rios Sandoval 19. Testosterone
Fabíola Rohden (Federal University at Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil) Index