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The Impotence Epidemic : Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China /

In this ethnography of impotence as a medical and social phenomenon, Everett Yuehong Zhang argues that the recent increase in Chinese men seeking treatment for impotence represents a shift in changing sexual attitudes in capitalist China.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zhang, Everett (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The birth of nanke (men's medicine)
  • Sexual repression
  • One thousand bodies of impotence
  • Impotence, family, and women
  • The loss of jing (seminal essence) and the revival of yangsheng (the cultivation of life)
  • Bushen (nourishing the kidney), shugan (smoothing out the liver) or taking the great brother (Viagra)
  • Potency is fullness of life
  • Conclusion: If shen (the kidney) is strong, life is good.