This important new book provides a critical and interdisciplinary look at therole masculinity can play in men's relationships with health. Bringing together international contributors from previously disparate fields of study, it links theory with empirical research to create a fertile terrain for future debate. INDICE: Foreword; K.Hunt - Acknowledgments - Notes on Contributors - Introduction What is the Point of This Book?; B.Gough ; S.Robertson - PART I: CURRENT ISSUES AND DEBATES IN THE FIELD OF MEN'S HEALTH - Developing a Critical Men's Health Debate in Academic Scholarship; M.Lohan - A Grand Illusion: Masculinity, 'Passing' and Men's Health; D.Buchbinder - Men, Public Health and Health Promotion: Towards a Critically Structural and Embodied Understanding; S.Robertson ; R.Williams - Bugging the Cone of Silence With Men's Health Interviews; J.L.Oliffe - PART II: POPULAR CONCEPTIONS OF MEN'S HEALTH AND WELLBEING - Men's Negotiations of a 'Legitimate' Self-help Group Identity; S.Seymour-Smith - Older Men's Health: The Role of Marital Status and Masculinities; K.Davidson ; R.Meadows - Promoting 'Masculinity' Over Health: A Critical Analysis of Men's Health Promotion With Particular Reference to an Obesity Reduction 'Manual'; B.Gough - The Health Experiences of African-Caribbean and White Working Class Fathers; R.Williams - PART III: MEN, MASCULINITIES AND ILLNESS - Pathologizing Fatherhood: The Case of Male Post Natal Depression in Britain; E.Lee - Prostate Cancer and Masculinities in Australia; A.Broom - Understanding Masculinitieswithin the Context of Men, Body Image and Eating Disorders; M.Drummond - The Role of Masculinities in White and South Asian Men's Help-seeking Behaviour for Cardiac Chest Pain; P.Galdas - Afterword: What Next for Men's Health Research?; S.Robertson ; B.Gough - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20312-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 23/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés