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Impotence : a cultural history
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- Creator
- Angus McLaren
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1281965898, 9786611965891, 0226500934, 9780226500768, 0226500764
- OCLC
- ocm70218064, on1058353391, ocn476228537
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-318) and index.
- 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?
Subjects
- Impotence -- History.
- Impotence -- Social aspects.
- Erectile Dysfunction -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- Men -- psychology.
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- Men's Health -- history.
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