Zhang The Impotence Epidemic

Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7574-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Everett Yuehong

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Impotence Epidemic in China 1

Part I: Society and the State

1. The Birth of Nanke (Men's Medicine) 29

2. Sexual Repression 51

3. One Thousand Bodies of Impotence 71

4. Impotence, Family, and Women 101

Part II: Potency and Life

5. The Loss of Jing (Seminal Essence) and the Revival of Yangsheng (the Cultivation of Life) 135

6. Bushen (Nourishing the Kidney), Shugan (Smoothing out the Liver), or Taking the Great Brother (Viagra) 166

7. Potency Is Fullness of Life 198

Conclusion: "If Shen (the Kidney) Is Strong, Life Is Good" 221

Notes 229

References 251

Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Everett Yuehong Zhang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the co-editor of Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life, and co-author of Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person.