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The philosophy of Viagra : bioethical responses to the Viagrification of the modern world /
The impotency remedy Viagra is the fastest selling drug in history. It has grown beyond being simply a medical phenomenon, but has achieved the status of cultural icon, appearing on television as a pretext for jokes or even as a murder weapon. Viagra has socio-cultural implications that are not limi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series ;
v. 230. Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of sex and love. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION: Viagra, Lifestyle, and the Philosophical Perspective; ONE Eros, Viagra, and the Good Life: Reflections on Cephalusand Platonic Moderation; TWO Diogenes of Sinope Gets Hard on Viagra; THREE A Question of Virtuous Sex: Would Aristotle Take Viagra?; FOUR Man's Fallen State: St. Augustine on Viagra; FIVE Viagra and the Utopia of Immortality; SIX Enhancing Desire Philosophically: Feminism, Viagra,and the Biopolitics of the Future; SEVEN Red Pill or Blue Pill? Viagra and the Virtual
- EIGHT Virility, Viagra, and Virtue: Re-Reading Humane Vitaein an African LightNINE Erecting New Goals for Medicine: Viagraand Medicalization; TEN Desire and its Mysteries: Erectile StimulatorsBetween Thighs and Selves; ELEVEN America and Viagra or How the White Negro Becamea Little Whiter: Viagra as an Afro-Disiac; TWELVE David Hume Meets Viagra: The Misuse of the Scienceof Erectile Dysfunction; THIRTEEN A Short Note on Viagra and Thanatos; FOURTEEN Comparative Melioration and Pathological Pathogenizationin Viagra Marketing; FIFTEEN Erectus Interruptus: All Erections Are Not Equal
- WORKS CITEDABOUT THE AUTHORS; INDEX