Title: Thyroid Hormones in Human Biology: New Perspectives

Author: Alan Balsam, M.D.

Description: A pioneering, high-quality modern treatise on thyroid hormones in humans, featuring new studies and discoveries, with an analytical narrative emphasizing theories and proofs.

Scientific Scope: Endocrinology, thyroid, biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology

Primary Audience: Endocrinologists, thyroid specialists, basic and clinical

Publisher: Endocrine Works

Book Metrics and Features: 7 by 10 inches, softcover, 474 pages, preface and afterword by author, 8 chapters, richly illustrated with graphics, including study data figures and original depictions of proposed mechanisms, extensive tabular data summaries, heuristic words and terms index

The origin of science traces to early history, when spectacular displays in nature first captured the attention of humans. The powerful waves, tides and storms in the seas and oceans; the flow of streams from the mountains to the mighty rivers winding over the continents; the eruptions of volcanos at the earth’s surface, the flight of shooting stars in the darkness of night – all commonly observed today as well – left their viewers awestruck and captured their imagination. Those great wonders feature a central theme—motion with the movement of objects of various sizes ranging from atoms and molecules to celestial bodies in their usual domains.

Science may be described as a voyage of discovery in uncharted waters whose guiding lights are observation, hypothesis, theory and proof. The discipline utilizes a general systematic approach, and although thematic focus generally differs, all fields in science are governed by the same laws making them interdependent; hence, when a new discovery is made in one field, others have to examine its implications and adjust their principles.