Impotence : a cultural history / Angus McLaren.
| Author/creator | McLaren, Angus |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Click to View |
| Subjects |
| 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? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-318) and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: McLaren, Angus. Impotence. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226500768 0226500764 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780226500935 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0226500934 (electronic bk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |