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Author:
Zhang, Everett.
Title:
The impotence epidemic : men's medicine and sexual desire in contemporary China / Everett Yuehong Zhang.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Impotence--Treatment--China.
Men--Sexual behavior--China.
Medicine, Chinese.
Impotence--Treatment.
Medicine, Chinese.
Men--Sexual behavior.
China.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
Critical global health
ISBN:
0822375745 (e-book)
9780822375746 (e-book)
0822358565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822358565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822358441 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822358442 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)878023951
LCCN:
2014025037
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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