GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health - Softcover

Almeling, Rene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520289250 ISBN 13: 9780520289253

Publisher: University of California Press, 2020

Synopsis

What is healthy sperm or the male biological clock? This book details why we don't talk about men's reproductive health and how this lack shapes reproductive politics today. 

For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women’s reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men’s health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences?

Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men’s reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men’s age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today.
 

About this title

About the Author

Rene Almeling is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University and the author of Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm.

From the Back Cover

"A forceful challenge to the supposition that reproductive health is a woman's domain. This sophisticated multilevel study of how knowledge is made—and not made—about men's reproductive health sets a new agenda for research on gender in medical knowledge."—Sarah Richardson, author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

"Professor Almeling carefully documents historic neglect of male reproductive health issues by medical science and the media, and the consequent gaps in how the public understands the connection between a father's health and birth outcomes. A must-read for forward thinkers in the reproductive health community."—Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, President Emerita, March of Dimes

"It takes exceptional skill to account for an absence. In this fascinating investigation, Rene Almeling reveals how the science of men's reproductive health has gone missing in action—and shows just how much that vacuum of knowledge matters, for the lives of people of all genders."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research and Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge

From the Inside Flap

"A forceful challenge to the supposition that reproductive health is a woman's domain. This sophisticated multilevel study of how knowledge is made&;and not made&;about men's reproductive health sets a new agenda for research on gender in medical knowledge."&;Sarah Richardson, author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

"Professor Almeling carefully documents historic neglect of male reproductive health issues by medical science and the media, and the consequent gaps in how the public understands the connection between a father's health and birth outcomes. A must-read for forward thinkers in the reproductive health community."&;Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, President Emerita, March of Dimes

"It takes exceptional skill to account for an absence. In this fascinating investigation, Rene Almeling reveals how the science of men's reproductive health has gone missing in action&;and shows just how much that vacuum of knowledge matters, for the lives of people of all genders."&;Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research and Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520289250
• ISBN 13: 9780520289253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294