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Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary: Theory in the New Humanities

Editat de Andrea Ford, Roslyn Malcolm, Sonja Erikainen, Lisa Raeder, Celia Roberts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2024
A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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.
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ISBN-13: 9781350322981
ISBN-10: 1350322989
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Theory in the New Humanities

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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)


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Recenzii

Hormonal Theory is a long-awaited and much-needed contribution to the meaning and significance of hormones. An elegant combination of theorization and meticulous case studies, this glossary moves beyond prevailing biomedical understanding of hormones as signaling molecules or chemical messengers to show how they are co-constituted between the biological, environmental, cultural, and social. This outstanding book will unsettle our very understanding of what hormones are.
Hormonal Theory throws one into the murky waters of 'hormones', demonstrating the impossibility of
disentangling the concept of a hormone from the relations, bio-social configurations, and affects that produce it. The book's playful appropriation of the medical glossary format deftly hints at the serious political impetus behind its powerful insights.

This book is a treasure chest of insights. Accessible and erudite, the essays show how hormones are a means through which social and political relations become instantiated in biology. Hormonal Theory is an indispensable read for anyone interested in how bodies are entangled in political and epistemic regimes.
This thought-provoking volume debunks some commonly held misconceptions about hormones and makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of the crucial role hormones play in many aspects of human lives. Very highly recommended.