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Transforming the testicle: science, medicine and masculinity, 1800-1950
1Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, The University of Manchester, UK.
Medicina Nei Secoli
|October 31, 2002
Abstract:
The article explores episodes the history of the discovery of function and actions of testicle - focusing first on their transformation from a quasi - mystical organ of virility to chemical factory secreting substances essential to physical and psychological attributes of masculinity; then showing how the powers of the testicular secretions were soon seen to extend for beyond the narrowly sexual sphere.