Toxic bodies : hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES
Title:
Toxic bodies : hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES
Author:
Langston, Nancy
ISBN:
9780300136074
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010
Physical Description:
xvii, 233 p. ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
Subject Term:
Subject:
| Endocrine disrupting chemicals -- History |
| Endocrine disrupting chemicals -- Government policy -- United States -- History |
| Endocrine Disruptors -- adverse effects -- United States |
| Endocrine Disruptors -- history -- United States |
| Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects -- United States |
| Environmental Exposure -- history -- United States |
| History, 20th Century -- United States |
| History, 21st Century -- United States |