Toxic bodies
Subtitle: endocrine disruptors and the lessons of history
By: Nancy Langston.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300136074
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disrupting hormonal signals; title: Before World War II : chemicals, risk, and regulation; title: Help for women over forty; title: Bigger, stronger, babies with diethylstilbestrol; title: Modern meat : hormones in livestock; title: Growing concerns; title: Assessing new risks; title: Sexual development and an ecological view of health; title: Precaution and the lessons of history.