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From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric) by Amy Lunn Koerber is a health book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>In <i>From Hysteria to Hormones</i>, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word <i>hormone</i> and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health.</p> <p>Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term "hormone" in 1905, hormones began to provide a chemical explanation for bodily phenomena that were previously understood in terms of "wandering wombs," humors, energies, and balance. In this study, Koerber
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- Author
- Amy Lunn Koerber
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271081557
- Category
- health
- Subjects
- Medical, Health & Fitness, Women'S Health
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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