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Meeting The Needs Of Older Men: Challenges For Those In Helping Professions, Jordan I. Kosberg
Meeting The Needs Of Older Men: Challenges For Those In Helping Professions, Jordan I. Kosberg
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The uniqueness of men's lives has not been revealed in the social service literature. Therefore policy makers and practitioners are without the necessary knowledge base and research to create programs and services that will engage men and, in particulara, ging men. This articlep resents an overview of the state of knowledge in general and the specific areas significant to policy and practice development.
Viagra: Medical Technology Constructing Aging Masculinity, Gregory Gross, Robert Blundo
Viagra: Medical Technology Constructing Aging Masculinity, Gregory Gross, Robert Blundo
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Medicalization and commodification of the body through technology in the form of Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs is reinforcing the cultural expectations that ageing men are required to age well to maintain youthful masculinity. Ageing well is explored as it relates the construction of masculinity, sexuality and ageing men's bodies.