On November 27, at 10 a.m., in the IMS auditorium, there will be the launch of the book “Testosterone: the biography of a hormone”, by researcher Lucas Tramontano, published by Editora Fiocruz. The launch will include a discussion with the author, with comments from Professor Jane Russo (CLAM/IMS/UERJ).
The book is the result of Tramontano’s doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Jane Russo, defended in 2017 at the Hesio Cordeiro Institute of Social Medicine, Rio de Janeiro State University (IMS/UERJ). In this research, Lucas traces a genealogy of the development of the hormone testosterone, reflecting on its importance for sexuality and gender studies. Tramontano reveals the different uses given to this hormone over the years, as well as the different conceptions surrounding it, revealing approximations, distances and tensions between medical, aesthetic and recreational uses. These tensions also lead to reflections such as: do the uses of testosterone represent bodily autonomy for individuals or standardizations that generate huge profits for the pharmacological industries?
The book was a semi-finalist for the 1st Academic Jabuti Prize 2024, in the Anthropology, Sociology, Demography, Political Science and International Relations category.
Tramontano has a degree in Pharmacy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2009), a master’s degree (2012) and a doctorate (2017) in Collective Health from the Institute of Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IMS-UERJ), in the area of Human Sciences and Health.
Get to know his master’s thesis “Keep swimming: on testosterone, ageing and masculinity” and his doctoral thesis “Testosterone: the multiple faces of a molecule”, both developed by Lucas Tramontano at IMS/UERJ and supervised by Professor Jane Russo (CLAM/IMS/UERJ).
Venue: IMS Auditorium, room 6012, Block E, 6th floor, Rio de Janeiro State University, Maracanã Campus. Street São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro.