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- Title
Becoming Glandular: Endocrinology, Mass Culture, and Experimental Lives in the Interwar Age.
- Authors
Pettit, Michael
- Abstract
The article focuses on the history of experimental medicine in Europe and the United States between 1918 and 1939. The author discusses the popularity of endocrinology at this time, explores why physicians believed that glands and hormones were interconnected with longevity, and analyzes the relationship between hormone sciences and eugenics. The role of doctors Harry Benjamin and John R. Brinkley and novelist Gertrude Atherton in the popularity of endocrine studies is also examined.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL medicine; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENDOCRINE glands; HORMONE research; GENETICS of longevity; HISTORY of eugenics; BENJAMIN, Harry; ATHERTON, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
American Historical Review, 2013, Vol 118, Issue 4, p1052
- ISSN
0002-8762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ahr/118.4.1052