| Description |
xvii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-318) and index. |
| 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?. |
| Subject |
Impotence -- History.
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Impotence. |
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History. |
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Impotence -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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Impotentie. |
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Culturele aspecten. |
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Mannelijkheid. |
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Erectile Dysfunction -- history. |
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Men -- psychology. |
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Erectile dysfunction. |
| ISBN |
9780226500768 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226500764 cloth alkaline paper |
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