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Toxic bodies [[electronic resource] ] : hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES / / Nancy Langston



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Autore: Langston Nancy Visualizza persona
Titolo: Toxic bodies [[electronic resource] ] : hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES / / Nancy Langston Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina: 615/.36
Soggetto topico: Endocrine disrupting chemicals - History
Endocrine disrupting chemicals - Government policy - United States - History
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Toxic bodies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-46380-0
0-300-16299-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786138503321
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