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Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple
socio-historical contexts surrounding men's aging bodies in modern
medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it
investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and
biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the
conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of
social science studies on men's health and biotechnologies
including anti-aging perspectives. This book discusses both healthy
and diseased states of aging men in medical practices, bringing
together theoretical and empirical conceptualisations. Divided into
four parts it covers: Historical epistemology of aging, bodies and
masculinity and the way in which the social sciences have theorised
the aging body and gender. Material practices and processes by
which biotechnology, medical assemblages and men's aging bodies
relate to concepts of health and illness. Aging experience and its
impact upon male sexuality and identity. The importance of men's
roles and identities in care-giving situations and medical
practices. Highlighting how aging men's bodies serve as
trajectories for understanding wider issues of masculinity, and the
way in which men's social status and men's roles are made in
medical cultures, this innovative volume offers a multidisciplinary
dialogue between sociology of health and illness, anthropology of
the body and gender studies.
Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple
socio-historical contexts surrounding men's aging bodies in modern
medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it
investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and
biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the
conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of
social science studies on men's health and biotechnologies
including anti-aging perspectives. This book discusses both healthy
and diseased states of aging men in medical practices, bringing
together theoretical and empirical conceptualisations. Divided into
four parts it covers: Historical epistemology of aging, bodies and
masculinity and the way in which the social sciences have theorised
the aging body and gender. Material practices and processes by
which biotechnology, medical assemblages and men's aging bodies
relate to concepts of health and illness. Aging experience and its
impact upon male sexuality and identity. The importance of men's
roles and identities in care-giving situations and medical
practices. Highlighting how aging men's bodies serve as
trajectories for understanding wider issues of masculinity, and the
way in which men's social status and men's roles are made in
medical cultures, this innovative volume offers a multidisciplinary
dialogue between sociology of health and illness, anthropology of
the body and gender studies.
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