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Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping
University of California Press
March 2006
On Sale: March 6, 2006
381 pages ISBN: 0520248228 EAN: 9780520248229 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Testosterone has inspired dreams--of restored youth,
recharged sexual appetites, faster running, quicker
thinking, bigger muscles--since it was first synthesized in
1935. This provocative book investigates the complex,
bizarre, and sometimes outrageous history of synthetic
testosterone and other male hormone therapies. Exploring
many little-known social arenas--both inside and outside the
medical world--in which these substances are becoming
increasingly available and accepted, Testosterone Dreams
examines the implications and dangers of their use in
professional sports, in the workplace, in our sex lives, and
beyond.
Testosterone Dreams tells the story of testosterone's
growing and sometimes concealed influence in our culture
over the past 70 years. It explores such controversial
topics as the invention and marketing of the male menopause,
the disturbing history of hormonal and other medical
treatments aimed at boosting or suppressing women's
sexuality, and hormone doping in sporting events such as the
Tour de France and the Olympics, and in Major League
Baseball. It brings to light the hidden use of hormone
doping by policemen, soldiers, and other workers in a
variety of jobs. It also discusses the burgeoning steroid
use in the gay community and its relation to AIDS, and takes
a hard look at the pharmaceutical industry's promotional
campaigns to create new markets for testosterone products.
Testosterone Dreams is the first book to bring together the
whole story of testosterone and to consider its social and
ethical implications: Where does therapy end and performance
enhancement begin? How are changing medical technologies
affecting how we think about our identities as men and women
and the elusive goal of "well-being"? This book will be
essential reading as we move inexorably toward the
wide-open, libertarian pharmacology that is now making these
drug regimes available to a wider and wider clientele.
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