Although a government study found that men’s health was much worse than women s health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: "Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap."69 They did not say: "Men Face Large Health Care Gap." Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men’s lives with the saving […]

The feeling that male doctors treat men more seriously seemed to have been respectably documented when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported on such a study conducted by Lawrence Schneiderman.65 But when I spoke with Dr. Schneiderman, he explained that he had, in fact, done two studies: one found that men were […]

When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women who might die in childbirth or via abortions. But when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control […]

Why does breast cancer receive over 600 percent more funding than prostate cancer despite men being almost as likely to die from prostate cancer? Is it possible that we pretty much know what we need to know about prostate problems? Let’s look. ITEM In the 1920s. a new operation for enlarged prostates replaced an old […]

The belief that sexism has led to a focus on men’s health at the expense of women’s has led both the federal government and private industry to focus on women’s health at the expense of men’s. Thus the government has recently established an Office of Research on Women’s Health but no Office of Research on […]

The only group that can expea to live shorter lives in 1990 than in 1980 is black men 32 Why? For starters, it is black men who experience the greatest gap between the Stage I expectation to survive by being a physical slave and the Stage II need to be a master of technology. Thus […]

These coping mechanisms — or defense mechanisms — kill men a lot more softly than in the past. Fewer men die in coal mines, more die inside when a lifetime of doing everything he could to support a family leads to his income becoming an incentive for his wife to leave him When he sees […]

In almost every men’s group I have formed, men discuss problems they face at work — especially feelings of being unappreciated or criticized by bosses and colleagues. If we ask a man whether he has discussed this with his wife or woman friend, he usually says he has, but only superficially. Why? He says he […]

If you’ve ever had an adolescent son (or been one), you know a boy ‘s best friend is the one with whom he trades wit-covered put-downs. Why is the put-down trade the commerce of male adolescence? And why is this male pattern flaw finding so damaging? The put-down trade is our adolescent son’s rehearsal for […]

When boys and girls are young (1 to 4), boys die only slightly more frequently than girls. Once adult sex roles are experienced — between ages 15 and 24 — men die at a rate more than three times that of women.21 The male role, then, might be thought of as being about three times […]