PART ONE: MASCULINITY, HEALTH, AND ILLNESS
Rethinking Men¿s Health and Illness - Donald Sabo and David Frederick Gordon
Contributions of Changing Gender Differences in Behavior and Social Roles to Changing Gender Differences in Mortality - Ingrid Waldron
Premature Death among Males - Judith M Stillion
Masculinity, Men¿s Roles, and Coronary Heart Disease - Vicki S Helgeson
Life¿s Too Short to Die Small - Alan M Klein
Steroid Use among Male Bodybuilders
PART TWO: DIFFERENT STAKES
Health among African American Males - Robert Staples
Gender Politics, Pain, and Illness - Carol Polych and Donald Sabo
Sport, Masculinity, and the Injured Body - Phillip G White, Kevin Young and William G McTeer
Coming to Terms - Thomas J Gerschick and Adam S Miller
PART THREE: PSYCHOSOCIAL AND CLINICAL APSECTS OF MEN¿S HEALTH
Men¿s Style of Nurturing Elders - Lenard W Kaye and Jeffrey S Applegate
Sexual Adaptations among Gay Men with HIV - Richard Tewksbury
Testicular Cancer and Masculinity - David Frederick Gordon
Identity Dilemmas of Chronically Ill Men - Kathy Charmaz
Men Who Survive a Suicidal Act - Silvia Sara Canetto

A multidisciplinary, international approach is taken in this volume which contextualizes men's health issues within the broader theoretical framework of men's studies. The contributors argue that gender is a key factor for understanding the patterns of men's health risks, the ways men perceive and use their bodies and men's psychological adjustment to illness itself.

The first part introduces perspectives of men's studies and their relevance to understanding men's health. Part Two explores the links between traditional gender roles, men's health and larger structural and cultural contexts. Part Three looks at the implications of multiple masculinities for health issues, while the final section of the book examines the psychosocial aspects of men's health.