The medicalisation of male menopause in America

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 369-388

  Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Andropause; Climacteric; Hormone replacement therapy; Impotence; Male menopause; Mid life crisis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROPAUSE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; HISTORY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MALE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

ANDROPAUSE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MALE; ORGANOTHERAPY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; TESTOSTERONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547769910     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkm039     Document Type: Article

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