Testosterone dreams rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping /

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Main Author: Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • Doping before steroids : clean amateurs and doped professionals
  • The sports physician as hormone therapist
  • The entrepreneurial physician
  • Medical ethics
  • The doctor-athlete relationship
  • The patient as athlete, the athlete as patient
  • 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.