![]() Shulman and Charlene Shucker Hilton Puxblishing Co., 304 pages, $16.95. THE BLACK MAN’S GUIDE TO GOOD HEALTH Essential Advice for African-American Men and Their Families By Dr. Wolfe goes a long way toward giving gay men a useful reference book they’ll be likely to pull off the shelf many times in many phases of their lives. Further, it includes information about finding mental health professionals and sex therapists open to treating homosexuals and lists the “five tests and vaccines no gay man should go without”: cholesterol, blood pressure, hepatitis A and B, testicular self-exam and HIV test. The volume also looks at the sometimes difficult search for a doctor who is comfortable treating gay patients, a search that can keep gay men (and lesbians, for that matter) out of medical offices. It addresses not only physical, sexual and emotional health, but also aging, a crucial-but often under-examined-issue for the gay men who survived free love and the AIDS epidemic and are now part of the graying of America. ![]() The book is full of photographs, testimonials from prominent gay writers, athletes and activists, plus interesting asides about a wide range of subjects such as taking bodybuilding supplements, obtaining health coverage, deciphering medical studies and learning how family law treats gay fathers. ![]()
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