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Title Medicalized masculinities / edited by Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher A. Faircloth
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 263 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Medicalized masculinities : the missing link? / Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher A. Faircloth -- The Viagra blues : embracing or resisting the Viagra body / Meika Loe -- Sex the natural way : the marketing of Cialis and Levitra / Chris Wienke -- The leaky male body : forensics and the construction of the sexual suspect / Lisa Jean Moore and Heidi Durkin -- Medicalizing the aging male body : andropause and baldness / Julia E. Szymczak and Peter Conrad -- Dissecting medicine : gender biases in the discourses and practices of medical anatomy / Alan Peterson and Sam Regan de Bere -- Making the grade : the gender gap, ADHD, and the medicalization of boyhood / Nicky Hart with Noah Grand and Kevin Riley -- The sexual savage : race science and the medicalization of black masculinity / Ann Marie Hickey -- Medicalizing military masculinity : reconstructing the war veteran in PTSD therapy / Marisa M. Smith
Summary The first book to examine the male body in relation to the sociology of health and gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-251) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Men -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects
Masculinity -- Social aspects
Human body -- Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Men's studies.
Gender identity.
Gender Identity
Men -- psychology
Sociology, Medical
sex role.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Men's Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies.
Gender identity
Masculinity -- Social aspects
Human body -- Social aspects
Men -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects
Men's studies
Social medicine
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenfeld, Dana, 1958-
Faircloth, Christopher A., 1966-
ISBN 9781439904572
143990457X