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Guynecology : the missing science of men's reproductive health / Rene Almeling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Almeling, Rene, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Male reproductive health--Research--United States--History.
- Male reproductive health.
- Male reproductive health services--United States--History.
- Male reproductive health services.
- History.
- Research.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- What is healthy sperm or the male biological clock ? This book details why we don't talk about men's reproductive health and how this lack shapes reproductive politics today. For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men's health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences? Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men's reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men's age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today.
- Contents:
- Medical specialization and the making of biomedical knowledge
- Circulating knowledge about men's reproductive health
- Men's views of reproduction
- Conclusion : The politics of men's reproductive health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Almeling, Rene, 1977- Guynecology
- ISBN:
- 0520963989
- 9780520963986
- Publisher Number:
- 99985357109
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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