This volume describes the principal ideas and developments in endocrinology from the time of Aristotle through the most recent discoveries. Over the years, the field has involved an intertwining of information gained through clinical medicine with physiology, biochemistry, and genetics to discover a host of hormones, unravel their structure, and determine their function and mechanism of action. An excellent picture of this exciting area of physiology and the people involved in its growth.
Edited by S. M. McCann
1988, 484 pp.; 79 illus., ISBN 019-520718-1