Hormones and the Chemical Self | Early Endocrinology & Behavior in Medicine

Описание: Dive into the birth of endocrinology and the early 20th-century obsession with hormones as the drivers of behavior, personality, and even morality in this lecture from Bodies, Systems, and Stories: A Critical History of Medicine.

In Unit II: The Transformation of Medical Practice (Lectures 7–14), Lecture 10, you’ll explore:

The rise of the “chemical self”: How glands were thought to determine destiny, behavior, and social outcomes.

Killer hormones and personality theories: The 1920s fascination with insulin, pituitary, thymus, and other glands as regulators of historical figures and “ideal humans.”

Social and ethical implications: How the search for hormonal determinants influenced ideas about justice, gender, race, and social engineering.

Legacy in modern science: Connections to discoveries like leptin, the hypothalamus, and the ongoing quest to understand biological vs. behavioral control.

Perfect for medical students, historians of medicine, endocrinology enthusiasts, and physician-scientists, this lecture blends history, science, and societal reflection to show how early hormonal theories shaped our understanding of the self.

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