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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

by RandiHutterEpstein (Author), Randi Hutter Epstein (Author), Randi Hutter Epstein (Author)

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Synopsis

Metabolism, behaviour, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals from a basement filled with jarred nineteenth-century brains to a twenty-first-century hormone clinic in Los Angeles.

Brimming with fascinating anecdotes, illuminating new medical research and humorous details, Aroused introduces the leading scientists who made life-changing discoveries about the hormone imbalances that ail us, as well as the charlatans who used those discoveries to peddle false remedies.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 336
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 17 Aug 2018
ISBN 10: 0393239608
ISBN 13: 9780393239607

Media Reviews
A rollicking history certain to get your intellectual and physiologic juices flowing. Adrenaline-tinged tales and hot flashes of history-just what the doctor ordered. -- Lisa Sanders, New York Times Magazine Diagnosis columnist
A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine and self-discovery, Randi Hutter Epstein's book manages to excite the imagination as well as calm it. The story is grippingly told, and Epstein manages to bring a whole system of science alive to her reading public. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene: An Intimate History
Hormones may be ringmasters of the bodily circus, controlling everything from sex to metabolic function, but in this invigorating history they become stars of the show. -- Nature
Congratulations to my friend @randihepstein on the publication of her book! I loved reading it and highly recommend it to anyone interested in public health or your own health! -- Chelsea Clinton
I'm hitting up the public library for two. The first is Randi Hutter Epstein's Aroused: The history of hormones and how they control just about everything (Norton), which I hope will answer the most banal of questions as I continue my reluctant march through midlife: What the hell is happening to me? -- Jennie Erin Smith, Summer Books 2018 - Times Literary Supplement
The field of endocrinology, as this compelling history shows, has manifested extremes of ingenuity and hubristic error. -- The New Yorker
A well-written and informative book on the history of hormone research. -- The New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., the author of Aroused and Get Me Out, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a lecturer at Yale University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Psychology Today blog, among others. She lives in New York.