Recently added articles from International Journal of Men's Health:
Male victims of former-intimate stalking: a selected review.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Wigman, Stefanie Ashton ... Over the past decade, there has been an increase of research on former-intimate stalking, with many studies examining female victims and male perpetrators of this crime. Most of this research has shown that males form a significant proportion of those who are stalked by a former-intimate ...
Reaching men at highest risk for undetected prostate cancer.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Arras-Boyd, Rita E. ... Annual screening for prostate cancer, although controversial, should be offered to men over age 45. Community-based prostate cancer education and screening offer a way to reach those at highest risk for undetected prostate cancer, African-American men and men without healthcare providers ....
Motor vehicle deaths among men: marital status, gender and social integration.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Kposowa, Augustine J. ... The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of marital status on mortality from motor vehicle accidents among men. The framework for the analysis was social integration and control theory. The sample comprised 450,483 men and women from the United States who were followed for a ...
Are anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms related to muscle dysmorphia?(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Chandler, Christopher G. ... The present study examines how muscle dysmorphia (MD), a clinically significant preoccupation that one's body is inadequately muscular, relates to trait anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. 97 college-age men completed the MD Inventory, the Drive for Muscularity Scale, the Male Body ...
The sexual health of gay men in the post-AIDS era: feminist, post-structuralist and queer theory perspectives.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Numer, Matthew S. ... This article discusses feminist, post-structuralist and queer theories as a framework for masculinities research on sexual health promotion efforts targeting gay men, particularly in relation to HIV prevention. The theories discussed have the potential to challenge the social categories ...
Clinical and personality features of depressed college males: an exploratory investigation.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Greenberg, Stefanie Teri ... Published studies on men and depression do not typically involve a comparison group. This article presents the first exploratory investigation to compare the clinical and personality features of a sample of depressed men to a non-clinical sample. Analyses revealed the clinical group ...
Understanding Men and Health: Masculinities, Identity, and Well-being.
Jun 22, 2009; Noone, Jack H. ... Understanding Men and Health." Masculinities, Identity, and Well-being, by Steve Robertson. Berkshire, England: Open University Press, 2007, xii, 178 pp. Understanding Men and Health examines how social context influences the relationship between masculine identities and ...
Impotence: A Cultural History.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Hatzimouratidis, Konstantinos ... Impotence: A Cultural History, by Angus McLaren. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, 332 pp. Impotence, the old term for male erectile dysfunction, is a unique problem. From the medical point of view, it is a disease defined as the "consistent or recurrent inability ...
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Barnett, Richard ... Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness, by Mark S. Micale. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008, xv + 366 pp. In the words of the slogan, Hysterical Men does exactly what it says on the tin. Mark Micale, a leading historian of Western psychiatry, offers ...
Lifting the Weight.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Ridge, Damien ... Lifting the Weight, by Martin Kantor. New York: Praeger, 2007, 232 pp. Martin Kantor, a North American psychiatrist, is a prolific writer, with over a dozen books to his name. In his book, Lifting the Weight: Understanding Depression in Men, Its Causes and Solutions, Kantor ...
Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies.
Jun 22, 2009; Arber, Sara ... Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies, by Chloe E. Bird and Patricia P. Rieker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xv + 256 PP. The paradox of "women being sicker but men dying quicker" is one that has been evident for over twenty ...
