1905: The "notion of the hormone"

 
Preciado: "During the twentieth century, the 'invention' of the biochemical notion of the hormone and the pharmaceutical development of synthetic molecules for commercial uses radically modified trditional definitions of normal and pathological sexual identities."
 
157: "The year is 1905 [...] and Dr. Ernest Henry Starling and William Bayliss invent the concept of the hormone."

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #gender, #body, #corporations, #identity, #biology

> created February 24, 2024 at 7:24:17 AM


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