The Hormone Sourcebook: How hormones dominate your life from before birth through old age
The inspiration for "The Hormone Sourcebook" came from over 45 years of research, and teaching students training for careers in the health sciences, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy and exercise science. The experience and feedback acquired at social gatherings and others led author Eugene Spaziani, Ph.D., to conclude that people are remarkably uninformed, yet are intensely curious, about how their bodies work – especially about what hormones do.
The topics are introduced systematically and discussed in conversational style. The ten chapters are loaded with topical information, explanations of controversies, and stories of epochal breakthroughs in bio-medicine (including hormone-related work by 30 Nobel Prize winners).
It provides the basics for understanding news stories about hormones that appear almost daily, and information that better prepares one for trips to the doctor. The book also guides readers through such controversies as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in menopause, steroid abuse and its consequences, the “bio-identical” hormones flap, the nature-nurture arguments about the causes of homosexuality, and much more!
- Paperback: 190 pages
- Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (October 14, 2009)
- ISBN-13: 978-1441513397
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