Research Guides: TRU Library Book Displays: Men's Health

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If you're noticing a lot of fuzzy caterpillars, walruses, and handlebars around you this time of year, that's a sure sign it must be November. These stylish, wiry and bushy 'stashes aren't just for show: The goal is to raise awareness for men's health. The Movember Challenge originated primarily to bring about awareness and raise funds for prostate and testicular cancers, but it has since grown to encompass men's health as a whole, which includes mental health and suicide prevention. So if you're bothered by ticklish whiskers, don't shave it off! Keep it! It's for a good cause.

Below are some helpful and fascinating resources to encourage awareness and open up conversations about men's wellness and self-care.

Men's Health

One Thousand Mustaches: A Cultural History of the Mo by Allan Peterkin
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9781551524740

Publication Date: 2012-09-18

One Thousand Mustaches is a fun romp through the history of the moustache. After decades of being much maligned in Western culture, the moustache is enjoying a cultural renaissance, thanks to the annual phenomenon of Movember (when men grow facial hair during November to raise funds for prostate cancer research) and the retro/modern mo's sported by the likes of Ryan Gosling and James Franco. One Thousand Mustaches is both a light-hearted cultural history and a style manual for those with mo's as well as those who love `em.
Men's Health: An Introduction by Diana Karczmarczyk (Editor); Susan A. Milstein (Editor)
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9781138496057

Publication Date: 2020-07-20

Men's Health explores social, cultural, physical and psychological approaches to men's health with sections focusing on psycho-social issues, the body, relationships, healthy living and aging, while taking into account cultural differences. Each chapter: provides a review of the current science and emerging research of the topic; outlines theoretical frameworks, best practices and recommendations for advancing men's health through service delivery, research, education, policy and advocacy; features a personal assessment tool on the topic; and includes vignettes from men, their friends and families, and care providers.
Integrative Men's Health by Myles D. Spar (Editor); George E. Munoz (Editor)
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9780199843794

Publication Date: 2014-03-11

Integrative Men's Health provides an evidence-based perspective on the health problems that affect men and the ways in which such problems may be prevented or treated utilizing a broad armamentarium of approaches - from conventional tools to complementary modalities. All chapters take into consideration of all the factors that influence men's health including body, mind, and spirit in a way that neither rejects alternative approaches nor accepts any of them uncritically.
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England by Jennifer Evans
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9789462986480

Publication Date: 2023-11-13

How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on medical sources and personal testimonies, it reveals how men responded to bouts of ill health and their relationships with the medical practitioners tasked with curing them. The book thus offers a historical voice to modern calls for men to be alert to, and open about, their own bodily health.
Lonely Less: How to Connect with Others, Make Friends and Feel Less Lonely by Gill Hasson
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9780857089045

Publication Date: 2021-08-02

Anyone, whatever their age, gender, culture or abilities, can find themselves separate and disconnected from others and feeling lonely. If you feel lonely you are lonely. In Lonely Less author Gill Hasson delivers practical strategies you can implement immediately to counter loneliness and connect with other people. Lonely Less is a must-read in order to better connect with others, take part in social activities, make friends, be understood and feel a sense of belonging.
Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-30 by Fiona Reid
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9781847252418

Publication Date: 2010-04-23

Publications ranging from John Bull to the Morning Post insisted that shell-shocked men should be treated with respect, and the Minister for Health announced that the government was committed to protecting shell-shocked men from the stigma of lunacy. Yet at the same time, many mentally-wounded veterans were struggling with a pension system which was failing to give them security. It is this conflict between the political rhetoric and the lived experience of many wounded veterans that explains why the government was unable to dispel the negative wartime assessment of official shell-shock treatment. There was also a real conflict between the government's wish to forget shell shock whilst memorializing the war and remembering the war dead. As a result of these contradictions, shell shock was not forgotten, on the contrary, the shell-shocked soldier quickly grew to symbolize the confusions and inconsistencies of the Great War.
Dying to Be Men: Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys by Will Courtenay
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9780415878753

Publication Date: 2011-04-28

Masculinity has a powerful effect on the health of men and boys. Indeed, many of the behaviors they use to 'be men' actually increase their risk of disease, injury, and death. In this book, Dr. Will Courtenay, an internationally recognized expert on men's health, provides a foundation for understanding this troubling reality.
Men Writing Eating Disorders: Autobiographical Writing and Illness Experience in English and German Narratives by Heike Bartel
Call Number: (ebook)

ISBN: 9781839099236

Publication Date: 2020-12-04

Eating disorders are situated at the complex interface of biology, medicine, culture, society, and politics, and are seen differently from each perspective. This book brings together discussions of eating, food, gender, sexuality and mental health through analysis of published autobiographical narratives authored by men with experience of living with one of the main eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder) as well as associated mental health problems such as body dysmorphic disorder and depression.
Men's Health: body, identity and social context by Alex Broom (Editor); Philip Tovey (Editor)
Call Number: WA 306 .M49 2009

ISBN: 9780470516560

Publication Date: 2009-02-24

This book explores the social, political and theoretical underpinnings of the men's health field. Written by experts in the field, it provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationships between cultural understandings and health-related issues. It looks at important issues such as prostate cancer, chest pain and heart disease and how men experience such problems. It examines sexuality, mental illness and ethnicity as well as the role that sport can play in men's health outcomes.
How Men Age: what evolution reveals about male health and mortality by Richard G. Bribiescas
Call Number: QP 86 .B75 2016

ISBN: 0691160635

Publication Date: 2016-09-06

While the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation--until now. How Men Age is the first book to explore how natural selection has shaped male aging, how evolutionary theory can inform our understanding of male health and well-being, and how older men may have contributed to the evolution of some of the very traits that make us human. In this book, biological anthropologist Richard Bribiescas looks at all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lens.
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health by Harvey B. Simon (Editor)
Call Number: WA 300 .S545 2002

ISBN: 0684871815

Publication Date: 2002-09-17

From the editor of the enormously popular Harvard Men's Health Watch, comes the ultimate, state-of-the-art guide to help men achieve--and maintain--optimum health. Charts & graphs throughout.
Hysterical Men: the hidden history of male nervous illness by Mark S. Micale
Call Number: WM 11.1 .M533 2008

ISBN: 9780674031661

Publication Date: 2008-11-30

Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity-the basis for patriarchal rule-in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. Hysterical Men boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it. Mark Micale reveals the hidden side of this vision, that is, the innumerable cases of disturbed and deranged men who passed under the eyes of male medical and scientific elites from the seventeenth century onward.
Male Bodies: health, culture and identity by D. Watson; Jonathan Watson
Call Number: WA 300 .W38 2000

ISBN: 0335197868

Publication Date: 2000-04-01

How do men perceive their bodies? how can empirical study of the body inform our understanding of the social world of men? what are the implications of such understanding for public health?

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"Murder Mysteries, Monsters and Mayhem!"

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This selection of films contains haunting horrors, monsters, and murder mysteries to get you in the mood for spooky season!

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