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Beyond the Natural Body
Nelly Oudshoorn
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Description for Beyond the Natural Body
Paperback. The hormonally-constructed body has become such a dominant way of conceptualizing bodies that it is often assumed to be a natural phenomenon. This book traces the scientific development of the hormonal body concept and examines the mass production of hormones as drugs, including the pill. Num Pages: 208 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFCX; JH; MFK; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
It is now impossible to imagine a world without sex hormones. Women all over the world take hormonal pills to control their fertility and estrogen and progesterone have become the most widely used drugs in the history of medicine. But why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Nelly Oudshoorn challenges the idea that there exists such a thing as a natural body and shows how concepts such as the hormonal body assume the appearance of natural phenomena by virtue of the activities of scientists, rather than being rooted in nature. Beyond the ... Read more
It is now impossible to imagine a world without sex hormones. Women all over the world take hormonal pills to control their fertility and estrogen and progesterone have become the most widely used drugs in the history of medicine. But why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Nelly Oudshoorn challenges the idea that there exists such a thing as a natural body and shows how concepts such as the hormonal body assume the appearance of natural phenomena by virtue of the activities of scientists, rather than being rooted in nature. Beyond the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415091916
SKU
V9780415091916
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About Nelly Oudshoorn
Nelly Oudshoorn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam.
Reviews for Beyond the Natural Body
'By raising questions about the analytical adequacy of current approaches, the authors develop innovative answers to our sociological understanding of the relationships between the social self, the sequestration of the dead body and the social presence of the dead ... It is an imaginative contribution to the cluster of disciplines that are situated around the dying body' - Bryan ... Read more