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

by Everett Yuehong Zhang

Book Overview

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"