1st Edition

Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine

Edited By Antje Kampf, Barbara L. Marshall, Alan Petersen Copyright 2013
234 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine: An Introduction  Antje Kampf, Barbara L. Marshall and Alan Petersen  Part 1: Rethinking Concepts: Historical Perspectives  Chapter 1. Ageing, Embodiment and the Negotiation of the Third and Fourth Ages  Paul Higgs and Fiona McGowan  Chapter 2. Testosterone and the Pharmaceuticalization of Male Aging  Elizabeth Siegel Watkins  Chapter 3. ‘There Is A Person Here’: Rethinking Age(ing), Gender and Prostate Cancer  Antje Kampf  Part 2: Scientific and Health Discourses on Aging Men  Chapter 4. Aging Men: Resisting and Endorsing Medicalization Elianne Riska  Chapter 5. The Vicissitudes of ‘Healthy Ageing’: The Experiences of Older Migrant Men in a Rural Australian Community  Susan Feldman, Alan Petersen and Harriet Radermacher  Chapter 6. What A Difference A Gay Makes: The Constitution Of The "Older Gay Man"  William Leonard, Duane Duncan and Catherine Barrett  Part 3: Aging, Sexualities and Identities  Chapter 7. Decreasing Erectile Function and Age-Appropriate Masculinities in Mexico Emily Wentzell  Chapter 8. Enhancing Masculinity and Sexuality in Later Life Through Modern Medicine: Experiences of Polygamous Yoruba Men in Southwest Nigeria  Agunbiade Ojo Melvin  Chapter 9. "I Haven’t Died Yet" Navigating Masculinity, Aging and Andropause in Turkey  Maral Erol and Cenk Özbay  Part 4: Care Work  Chapter 10. Older Men: The Health And Caring Paradox  Kate Davidson  Chapter 11. Aging Men, Masculinity, and Alzheimer’s: Caretaking and Caregiving in The New Millennia  Bethany Coston and Michael Kimmel

Biography

Antje Kampf holds a Junior Professorship for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine (Gender Aspects) at the School of Medicine of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Barbara L. Marshall is Professor of Sociology at Trent University, Canada.

Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia.