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Impotence : a cultural history / Angus McLaren.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McLaren, Angus.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Impotence--History.
Impotence.
Impotence--Social aspects.
Erectile Dysfunction--history.
Men--psychology.
Social aspects.
History.
Medical Subjects:
Erectile Dysfunction--history.
Men--psychology.
Physical Description:
xvii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Contents:
The impenetrable penetrator: manhood in Greece and Rome
When "desire refuses service": impotence in the Christian west
The "infirmity of others": laughing at fumblers in early modern Europe
"Shameful to wives, ridiculous for husbands, and unworthy of tribunals": impotence in the age of reason
Neurasthenia, decadence, and nineteenth-century manhood
Marketing manly vigor: Victorian medicine versus quackery
Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and "the love of civilized man"
Sex glands, rejuvenation, and eugenics between the wars
The "impotence boom": from Kinsey to Masters and Johnson
Viagra: hard science or hard sell?.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-318) and index.
ISBN:
9780226500768
0226500764
OCLC:
70218064

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