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Testosterone dreams : rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping / John Hoberman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Testosterone.
- Hormone therapy.
- Menopause--Hormone therapy.
- Menopause.
- Testosterone--Therapeutic use.
- Testosterone--Physiological effect.
- Longevity.
- Aphrodisiacs.
- Hormone Replacement Therapy--trends.
- Testosterone--therapeutic use.
- Doping in Sports.
- Rejuvenation.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hormone Replacement Therapy--trends.
- Testosterone--therapeutic use.
- Aphrodisiacs.
- Doping in Sports.
- Rejuvenation.
- Physical Description:
- 381 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- "Testosterone Dreams" is a timely book on the uses of hormone therapy and their effects on society, as well as the normal life-cycle and aging process.
- Contents:
- Pharmacology and our human future
- Hormone therapy and the new medical paradigm enhancements : where are the limits?
- Testosterone as therapy and myth
- "Psychic steroids" : Prozac as a performance-enhancing drug
- Back to the future : the sex hormone market from organotherapy to "andro"
- The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy
- What they did to women : the origins of sex therapy
- Sex before Kinsey : what doctors and patients did not know
- Hormones and the state : sex and marital stability
- Patriarchal sex therapy : curing "frigidity" with hormones
- Reorienting male desire : curing homosexuals with sex hormones
- Aphrodisia for the masses?
- The secret life of testosterone therapy
- The mainstreaming of testosterone
- Celebrating testosterone
- Hormone therapy and the discovery of sexual deficiency
- Preserving the feminine essence : estrogen and menopause
- Does the male menopause exist?
- "Outlaw" biomedical innovations : hormone therapy and beyond
- Hormone therapy and cosmetic procedures : the new medical ethos
- Offshore entrepreneurial medicine : from embryos to cloning
- Medical populism and outlaw medicine : fertility techniques and medical marijuana
- Hormone therapists and hormone evangelists
- Hormone therapy for athletes : doping as social transgression
- Introduction
- Doping before steroids : clean amateurs and doped professionals
- The sports physician as hormone therapist
- The entrepreneurial physician
- Medical ethics
- The doctor-athlete relationship
- The patient as athlete, the athlete as patient
- Public responses to doping
- A war against drugs?
- The politics of hormone doping in sport
- International doping control before reform
- Sportive nationalism and doping
- International doping control after reform
- A war on drugs?
- Athletes and the doping of everyday life
- Athletic doping and the human future
- Epilogue, testosterone as a way of life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-358) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520221516
- OCLC:
- 53276305
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