The Most Secret Quintessence of Life

摘要

In The Most Secret Quintessence of Life,the author,Chandak Sengoopta,gives a historical overview of the development of biomedical research in the field of gonads,hormones,and their various effects on the human body and social behavior.Sengoopta(a historian of science and medicine at Birkbeck College,University of London)describes how the theories of gonad function and sexual endocrinology were explored by researchers and applied by clinicians over the period between 1850 and 1950.