This volume traces the complicated paths through which physiological approaches to reproduction led to endocrinological approaches, creating along the way new technoscientific products from contraceptives to hormone therapies to new…

This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research in an array of 20th-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon multidisciplinary perspectives to understand the processes through which scientific researchers…

Essays describing how dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced since the mid-1980s in biomedicalization, the second transformation of American medicine.