Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping
Testosterone has inspired dreams - of restored youth, recharged sexual appetites, faster running, quicker thinking, bigger muscles - since it was first synthesized in 1935. This book investigates the complex, bizarre, and sometimes outrageous history of synthetic testosterone and other male hormone therapies. Exploring many little-known social arenas - both inside and outside the medical world - in which these substances are becoming increasingly available and accepted. Testosterone Dreams...
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"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
Introduction : testosterone dreams : pharmacology and our human future11Hormone therapy and the new medical paradigm132The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy553The mainstreaming of testosterone1194"Outlaw" biomedical innovations : hormone therapy and beyond1495Hormone therapy for athletes : doping as social transgression1796"Let them take drugs" : public responses to doping2147A war against drugs? : the politics of hormone doping in sport239Epilogue : testosterone as a way of life277
