Guynecology : the missing science of men's reproductive health /

"The average American has yet to encounter new information about the importance of 'healthy sperm' and the 'male biological clock.' That is because basic medical knowledge about how men matter when it comes to reproductive outcomes, from miscarriages to childhood illnesses,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Almeling, Rene, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Temas:
Male reproductive health > Research > United States > History.
Male reproductive health services > United States > History.
Santé de la reproduction masculine > Recherche > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Male reproductive health services
United States
age.
biological clock.
biomedicine.
body.
childhood illness.
children.
clinical care.
gender studies.
healthy sperm.
history.
male.
medical research.
miscarriage.
new fathers.
outcomes.
paternal.
politics.
public health policy.
reproductive.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"The average American has yet to encounter new information about the importance of 'healthy sperm' and the 'male biological clock.' That is because basic medical knowledge about how men matter when it comes to reproductive outcomes, from miscarriages to childhood illnesses, has only recently begun to be produced. This gap in knowledge about men is only more glaring when one considers the enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies over the past century. GUYnecology asks: What took so long? Why are biomedical researchers only now asking questions about how men's age and bodily health affect reproductive outcomes? Weaving together historical materials and qualitative interviews, Rene Almeling examines the history of medical knowledge-making about men's reproductive health and its consequences for individuals. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, she argues that a lack of medical specialization around men's reproductive bodies resulted in obliviousness about men's role in reproductive outcomes. Sifting through media messages and analyzing the stories of individual men and women, GUYnecology demonstrates how this historical gap in attention shapes reproductive politics today"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0520963989
9780520963986

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