Gender, the complex of social relations and practices attached to biological sex, is one of the
most important socio-cultural factors influencing health and health-related behavior …

Purpose Body image, self-esteem, and masculinity are three interconnected constructs in
men with prostate cancer, with profound effects on quality of life. This meta-synthesis aimed …

Objective To determine if supervised exercise minimises treatment toxicity in patients with
prostate cancer initiating androgen‐deprivation therapy (ADT). This is the first study to date …

Research variables—“sex” polarized as “females” and “males,”“sexuality” polarized as
“homosexuals” and “heterosexuals,” and “gender” polarized as “women” and “men”—reflect …

Photo elicitation studies have attracted modest attention in qualitative health research.
However, few researchers have focused exclusively on men's health and/or illness …

Fewer men than women are diagnosed with depression, although commentaries about
men's depression suggest that the lower reported rates may be due to the widespread use of …

We argue for a sociology of health, illness, and disease. Under the influence of Talcott
Parsons, the social study of health began as medical sociology and then morphed into …

Prostate cancer (PC) treatment side-effects such as erectile dysfunction (ED) can impact
men's quality of life (QoL), psychosocial and psycho-sexual adjustment. Masculinity (ie …

The clinical benefits of androgen‐deprivation therapy (ADT) for men with prostate cancer
(PC) have been well documented and include living free from the symptoms of metastases …

This paper draws on semi-structured interviews conducted with 36 older men to examine
how older men's understandings of independence relate to their help seeking behaviours …