Toxic bodies : hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES /

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"In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor - a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Langston, Nancy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Endocrine disrupting chemicals > History.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals > Government policy > United States > History.
Endocrine Disruptors > adverse effects
Endocrine Disruptors > history
Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
Environmental Exposure > history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Perturbateurs endocriniens > Histoire.
Perturbateurs endocriniens > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
MEDICAL > Toxicology.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Disrupting hormonal signals
  • Before World War II : chemicals, risk, and regulation
  • Help for women over forty
  • Bigger, stronger babies with diethylstilbestrol
  • Modern meat : hormones in livestock
  • Growing concerns
  • Assessing new risks
  • Sexual development and a new ecology of health
  • Precaution and the lessons of history.

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