The article seeks to analyze the specific literature about the male body and its relationship to the field of health. Based on this analysis, it is hoped that hypotheses or presuppositions can be established as a starting point for future interventions and research on the subject. Methodologically, the study is a literature review of a qualitative nature focusing on articles available in the Virtual Health Library (VHL). In terms of results, three themes were established that summarize the analysis of the sources: gendered bodies, male bodies in the midst of transgression and marginalization, and the reductions of the male body and self care. The concluded reached is that the standpoint of health on male bodies can promote enhanced self care in which masculinity can be constructed and reconstructed, superseding exclusionary, monolithic and reductive models that govern the male being and the female being.
Male bodies; Health and literature
