New Perspectives on the Maturing Field of Men’s Health: Introduction to a Special Conference Issue

this special issue of the International Journal of Men’s Health arose from the Men’s Health and Wellbeing: Critical Insights conference held in Leeds, uk on the 7th and 8th July, 2014. the event aimed to interrogate the meaning, scope and functions of “men’s health” research and practice. It also aimed to highlight the role of consumer capitalism on the health of men, particularly those most marginalized in society, whether via their ethnicity, sexuality, a combination of both or otherwise. Appropriately, a review of the conference is provided by emerging critical men’s health scholars Lorena Lozano and simon rowlands (this issue).