Oxford offers free men's health seminar series

Oxford University is organising a series of men's health seminars next month.

'Rethinking Gender in the 21st Century: Masculinities, Well-being and Health' takes place at 5pm on 6, 13, 20 and 27 May 2009 at St. Antony's College, Oxford and is free to all. Speakers include MHF chair Professor Alan White.

Full details here. Enquiries to Yiu-tung Suen.

The schedule is:

6 May:

• Prof. Alan White

  What's All This Fuss about the Health of Men?

• Dr. Steve Robertson

Lay Men, Health and Masculinities

13 May:

• Dr. Kate Davidson

  'It Came by Itself, It'll Go by Itself':

  Older Men's Attitude to Health and Illness

• Dr. Jonathan Scourfield

Gendered Suicide in the Context of Relationship Breakdown

20 May

• Prof. Anthony Coxon

  'Something Sensational ...':

  The Sexual Diary as a Tool for Mapping Gay Men's Detailed Sexual Behaviour

• Dr. Richard de Visser

'That's Not Masculine': Masculine Capital and Health-related Behaviour

27 May

• Dr. Robert Williams and Dr. Alistair Hewison

  'Being a Father...is the Embodiment of Everything I do':

  African Caribbean Fathers' Accounts of Fatherhood and Health

• Dr. Ellen Annandale, Reader in Sociology

Men's Health and Women's Health: Pulling Together or Tearing Apart?