Testosterone Dreams Hoberman Summary

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Chapter 1 of Testosterone Dreams by John Hoberman focuses on hormone therapy and the new medical paradigm. Throughout the chapter Hoberman talks about two different models, which are the Normal Function Model and The Enhancement Model. The Normal Function Model is described as using health care to preserve the normal human functions opposed to enhancing them with medicines and treatments. The Enhancement Model is described as using medicine without boundaries, which can mean using medicine to physically or mentally enhance the body by using a form of steroid, or a medicine with an uplifting effect like Prozac. Hoberman thinks of this approach as a client-centered libertarian medicine where “one takes ones cues from the patient’s value system,