03441nam 2200613Ia 450 991081982350332120240418010341.01-299-46380-00-300-16299-510.12987/9780300162998(CKB)2670000000335034(OCoLC)841171126(CaPaEBR)ebrary10687913(SSID)ssj0000860889(PQKBManifestationID)11547201(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860889(PQKBWorkID)10898429(PQKB)10274343(MiAaPQ)EBC3421161(DE-B1597)486289(DE-B1597)9780300162998(Au-PeEL)EBL3421161(CaPaEBR)ebr10687913(CaONFJC)MIL477630(OCoLC)923602716(EXLCZ)99267000000033503420090618d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrToxic bodies hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES /Nancy Langston1st ed.New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (252 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-13607-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --1. Disrupting Hormonal Signals --2. Before World War II: Chemicals, Risk, and Regulation --3. Help for Women Over Forty --4. Bigger, Stronger Babies with Diethylstilbestrol --5. Modern Meat: Hormones in Livestock --6. Growing Concerns --7. Assessing New Risks --8. Sexual Development and a New Ecology of Health --9. Precaution and the Lessons of History --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIn 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. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then for miscarriage, while farmers gave cattle the hormone to promote rapid weight gain. Its residues, and those of other chemicals, in the American food supply are changing the internal ecosystems of human, livestock, and wildlife bodies in increasingly troubling ways. In this gripping exploration, Nancy Langston shows how these chemicals have penetrated into every aspect of our bodies and ecosystems, yet the U.S. government has largely failed to regulate them and has skillfully manipulated scientific uncertainty to delay regulation. Personally affected by endocrine disruptors, Langston argues that the FDA needs to institute proper regulation of these commonly produced synthetic chemicals.Endocrine disrupting chemicalsHistoryEndocrine disrupting chemicalsGovernment policyUnited StatesHistoryEndocrine disrupting chemicalsHistory.Endocrine disrupting chemicalsGovernment policyHistory.615/.36Langston Nancy1605285MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819823503321Toxic bodies3930442UNINA