Men's sexual health in early modern England / Jennifer Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Jennifer, 1984- author.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Sexual behavior--England--History.

Men.

Sexual health--England--History.

Sexual health.

Men--England--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on medical sources and personal testimonies, it reveals how men responded to bouts of ill health and their relationships with the medical practitioners tasked with curing them. In doing so, this study restores men's health to medical histories of reproduction, demonstrating how men's sexual self-identity was tied to their health. Charting genitourinary conditions across the life cycle, the book illustrates how fertility and potency were key to medical understandings of men's health. Men utilized networks of care to help them with ostensibly embarrassing and shameful conditions like hernias, venereal disease, bladder stones, and testicular injuries. The book thus offers a historical voice to modern calls for men to be alert to, and open about, their own bodily health.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Sexual Health and the Life Cycle

1. Disrupting Manly Development

2. A Moment of Crisis

3. Old Lechers

Part Two: Patients and Practitioners

4. Embarrassment and Reticence

5. In ‘soe much payne he coud not indure it

6. Family Matters

7. Unruly Patients

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69969-3

90-485-3776-2

9781003699699

OCLC:

1401581118