Testosterone dreams : rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Testosterone dreams : 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
- Doping before steroids : clean amateurs and doped professionals
- The entrepreneurial physician
- Medical ethics
- The doctor-athlete relationship
- The patient as athlete, the athlete as patient
- "Let them take drugs" : 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.