The impotence epidemic : men's medicine and sexual desire in contemporary China / Everett Yuehong Zhang.
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.
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Duke University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Critical global health.
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Table of 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.