These 2 outcome variables were compared with normative community data on these aspects of mental health.
However, only psychologic distress differentiated between the research participants and the normative community sample of men.
As citizens, we are members of the normative community whose values the law purports to express: if it is to address us as citizens, and as responsible agents, it must speak to us not in the peremptory, coercive voice of a sovereign who commands our obedience, but in the rational, normative voice of values which demand our allegiance as the values of our polity.
Predictably, our patients had a global QL on the EORTC of 57, much lower than the 77 reported in a large normative community sample [ 32].
The social outcomes of the cohort, assessed at end-point, indicated that the majority of participants had been taking part in normative community activities such as attending marriages (82.6%), participating in community festivals (81.3%) and visiting relatives in another village (84.3%).
8 However, along with the greater societal acceptance of MSM in the hetero-normative community, heterosexual men are constantly exposed to the MSM 'ideal' body image.
Ordinarily, this impotence would be stigmatised in normative Indian communities.
If the law is to address us as responsible members of the normative political community, it must address us in terms appropriate to those reasons.
While the recommended behaviours are well known, there is inadequate information on forms of these behaviours that are feasible within the normative contexts of communities in sub-Saharan Africa [ 18].
There are at least two sets of norms that are important for giving the ELSA community normative legitimacy.
