International Journal of Men's Health back issues from September 2007:
"Standing out from the herd": men renegotiating masculinity in relation to their experience of illness.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... In this paper we investigate whether a mental illness (i.e., depression) presents different challenges to masculinity than those experienced in relation to a stereotypically male disease (i.e., coronary heart disease [CHD]) and a gender-specific disease (i.e., prostate cancer). Fifty-nine ...
Disappearing floors and second chances: men's journeys of prostate cancer.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of men with prostate cancer. Fifteen men in Western Canada who had received treatment for prostate cancer were interviewed and encouraged to provide their stories about experiencing prostate cancer ...
Prostate cancer among Canadian men: a transcultural representation.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Health services should consider the masculine representation of disease that underlies men's health behaviors. This study presents a transcultural view of Prostate Cancer (PC) among Canadian men of European descent. Nine men who were enrolled in a PC support group in Southeastern Ontario ...
Sexual orientation, sense of belonging and depression in Australian men.
Sep 22, 2007; ... This research examined whether a sense of belonging in the community and sexual orientation were associated with depression among men. Australian heterosexual (n = 136) and gay (n = 137) men were recruited through a variety of media, including newspapers, radio, and email, and directly at ...
The lonely college male.(Brief Report)(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Data from 377 anonymous 51-item questionnaires on loneliness were collected from freshman and sophomore students at East Carolina University and analyzed. While most of the students were not lonely, over a quarter (25.9%) of the men and 16.7% of the women agreed that they felt a "deep ...