Toxic bodies : hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES / Nancy Langston.

"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...

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Main Author: Langston, Nancy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010].
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