What is it about?
Man's health: a feeling of compromised masculinity
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Why is it important?
For men, the penile figure still represents their greatest wealth and social identity. There are scholars who associate the notion of the penis as a connection to a bridge that can connect bodies, minds, emotions and thoughts. The bridges vanquish vain, cross rivers, communicate lands, countries and cities distant. And would not the fragility of the masculine being located right there, where popular belief believes it strong and powerful? The condition of masculinity expressed by men with penile alterations is fragile. Thus, knowing the emotional and / or behavioral responses generated as a result of this impairment in male well-being, the nursing consultation, for the nurse, will become the bow and arrow of the "hunt", situation, which requested professional discernment and capacity to define the appropriate therapy with the collaboration of the other members of the multiprofessional team.
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The man with the feeling of compromised virility needs mutual help that permeates the office and the specialized care. And, the family at that moment, assumes important role in the disease-patient relationship as a support, understanding and shelter.
Vagner Ferreira do Nascimento
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This page is a summary of: Saúde do homem: sentimento de masculinidade comprometida, Revista Gestão & Saúde, December 2013, Revista Gestao e Saude/NESPROM,
DOI: 10.18673/gs.v5i1.22827.
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