The Impotence Epidemic: Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
(Part of the Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Series)
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Since the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Yuehong Zhang argues in The Impotence Epidemic that this trend represents changing public attitudes about sexuality in an increasingly globalized China. In this ethnography he shifts discussions of impotence as a purely neurovascular phenomenon to a social one. Zhang contextualizes impotence within the social changes brought by recent...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822358565
ISBN13:9780822358565
Release Date:March 2015
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.5" x 8.9"
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