Title:
The impotence epidemic : men's medicine and sexual desire in contemporary China
Author:
Zhang, Everett, author.
ISBN:
9780822358442
9780822358565
Publication Information:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Physical Description:
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Critical global health : evidence, efficacy, ethnography
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.
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