Medicalized masculinities / edited by Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher A. Faircloth.

Date:
2006
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.

Physical description

vii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-251) and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 1592130976
  • 9781592130979
  • 1592130984
  • 9781592130986