Chandak Sengoopta, The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+354. ISBN 0-226-74863-4. $45.00, £28.50 .Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+328. ISBN 0-674-01896-6. £24.95, $39.95 [Book Review]

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