When medicalization?the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment?first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, and medicine was scant and tended to depict masculinity as intrinsically damaging to men's health. Medicalized Masculinities considers how these threads in scholarship failed to consider the male body adequately and presents cutting-edge research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. Renowned health and gender studies experts examine...
When medicalization?the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment?first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science...
The male body in the study of gender, health, and medicalization largely has been ignored. This book presents research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. The introduction traces sociological work on medicalisation, masculinities, and the body.
The male body in the study of gender, health, and medicalization largely has been ignored. This book presents research into the definition and regulat...