Title: Hormones of life : endocrinology, the pharmaceutical industry, and the dream of a remedy for sterility, 1930-1970 /
Authors: Nordlund, Christer, 1970-
Publisher: Science History Publications,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Aktiebolaget Leo; Aktiebolaget Leo.; Drug Industry; Advertising; Chorionic Gonadotropin; Infertility, Female drug therapy; History, 20th Century; Drug Industry history; Advertising history; Chorionic Gonadotropin history; Chorionic gonadotropins; Pharmaceutical industry Sweden History; Infertility, Female Hormone therapy.; Sweden; Sweden
Contents: Hormones and hormone therapy : historical background -- Axel Westman, endocrinology, and the population question -- Lion of the north : Leo and the first hormone drugs -- Inventing Gonadex -- Launching Gonadex -- The reception of Gonadex -- New Gonadex -- More than Gonadex -- In the shadow of Homogonal.