Men's health and illness : gender, power, and the body / edited by Donald Sabo & David Frederick Gordon.

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1995], ©1995.

ix, 334 pages ; 23 cm.

"Published in cooperation with the Men's Studies Association, a task group of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism"

Rethinking men's health and illness / Donald Sabo and David Frederick Gordon -- Contributions of changing gender differences in behavior and social roles to changing gender differences in mortality / Ingrid Waldron -- Premature death among males / Judith M. Stillion -- Masculinity, men's roles, and coronary heart disease / Vicki S. Helgeson -- Life's too short to die small / Alan M. Klein -- Health among African American males / Robert Staples -- Gender politics, pain, and illness / Carol Polych and Donald Sabo -- Sport, masculinity, and the injured body / Philip G. White, Kevin Young, and William

G. McTeer -- Coming to terms / Thomas J. Gerschick and Adam S. Miller -- Men's style of nurturing elders / Lenard W. Kaye and Jeffrey S. Applegate -- Sexual adaptations among gay men with HIV / Richard Tewksbury -- Testicular cancer and masculinity / David Frederick Gordon -- Identity dilemmas of chronically ill men / Kathy Charmaz -- Men who survive a suicidal act / Silvia Sara Canetto

Includes bibliographical references and index