The New York Review of Books·· 9 天前精選推薦指數90.80
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被剝削的身體

導讀
Among the bodybuilders Gavin Francis discusses in his essay from the October 22 issue of the Review, the most surprising is surely Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses, who keeps in a drawer (along with his stash of pornographic postcards) a chart measuring his progress with “Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser,” a real device invented by the man […]
蘇格蘭醫生Gavin Francis在訪談中指出,社交媒體與生物技術熱潮正推動越來越多非運動員年輕男性濫用類固醇和實驗性肽類,已構成公共衛生問題。他解釋了這類藥物如何抑制自身睪酮、損害生育力,並提醒抗衰老藥物的長壽宣稱同樣缺乏長期數據。
推薦理由
訪談圍繞類固醇與肽類濫用展開,可練因果鏈梳理:外源激素如何讓睪丸萎縮、為何後悔多在診所而非網上出現。多處對比(類固醇與肽類、健美與抗衰老藥、1950年代與今天的健美標准)適合練比較觀點與作者態度題;對sirolimus、GLP-1等藥物的利弊分析可練細節定位與同義替換。
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