Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity

This commentary describes ways in which notions of African American men’s “health” attained by individual choice—embedded in the notion that African American men should visit doctors or engage in fewer risky behaviors—are at times in tension with larger cultural, economic, and political notions of “...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-07-01
Series:American Journal of Men's Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988313486512