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| | History of Science Society -- Newsletter Article |
 | | Cannon's work, is summarized in his popular book The Wisdom of the Body (1932; New York: Norton, 1960), which is eminently accessible to undergraduate readers. |
| | Henderson and Cannon were strongly interested in social regulation and equilibrium, as was fitting for products of the "Progressive Era," and sought in physiological processes analogies for the notion of social and economic balance. |
| | See also Stephen J. Cross and William R. Albury, "Walter B. Cannon, L.J. Henderson, and the Organic Analogy," Osiris, 1987, N.S. Endocrinology (the study of the nature and effect of hormones, or "chemical messengers," produced by the endocrine glands) is an area of general physiology that has shown enormous growth in the twentieth century. |
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