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Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping

Contributor(s): Hoberman, John (Author)

ISBN: 9780520248229

Publisher: University of California Press

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Pub Date: February 21, 2005

Dewey: 615.36

LCCN: 2003022824

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.02" H x 8.72" L x 5.94" W ( 1.15 lbs) 381 pages

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Description: ""Testosterone Dreams "is a detailed and frightening look at the shifting balance between patients' fantasies and the entrepreneurial bioscience that fuels these desires. Hoberman reveals the darker side of medicine that enhances athletic performances, and how the publicity given those performances generates wider demands for enhancement medicine. This book is a crucial contribution to the ethical deliberation of who we humans want to be, as bodies and as selves."--Arthur W. Frank, author of "The Wounded Storyteller "

Review Quotes: "The incredible story of male hormone therapies. . . . Hoberman injects his dense social history with odd medical lore, dissections of corporate profiteering, sharp examinations of Olympic doping and a powder-dry disdain for consumers who demand a better life in pill form. He connects such seemingly disjointed topics as Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity and cops who abuse steroids. And he doesn't shrink from big questions such as, what does it mean to be human in an age when steroids can make you a stronger athlete, Prozac a more focused businessman and Viagra a better lover?" --"Playboy Magazine"

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