Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES by Nancy Langston

Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

Nancy Langston

256 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Althoug...

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