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ISBN
9780822358442
Subject Area
Social Science, Psychology, Medical, History
Publication Name
Impotence Epidemic : Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
Publisher
Duke University Press
Item Length
9 in
Subject
Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / China, Urology, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year
2015
Series
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Everett Yuehong Zhang
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822358441
ISBN-13
9780822358442
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202594319

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Impotence Epidemic : Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / China, Urology, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Sociology / Marriage & Family
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Psychology, Medical, History
Author
Everett Yuehong Zhang
Series
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-025037
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Based on over 10 years of field research and writing by a greatly sensitive and skilled ethnographer who himself grew up in China, The Impotence Epidemic tells the story of contemporary China, from the Maoist era to the present, through the Chinese medicine conception of the lived body and popular Chinese understandings of how masculinity, sexual desire, and performance act as embodied metaphors of key cultural tensions and crises. Theoretically and ethnographically rich. A remarkable achievement!, "Zhang's ability to weave the history of these complicated periods into his study on impotence in a manner accessible to both Chinese specialists and non-specialists alike is a particular strength of the book.... Zhang's work is an important contribution to our understanding of the study of masculinity, sexuality, medicine and social policy in contemporary China." , Written in a clear and lucid manner, The Impotence Epidemic is suitable for courses in medical pluralism, the anthropology of the body, and gender and sexuality in Chinese culture., Ethnographically engaging and rich, this book contributes to the anthropological debates on health, sexuality and medicine.... [T]his book will be welcomed by a wide array of scholars interested in topics such as gender, sexual desires, impotence and Chinese medicine in China and beyond., [A] beautifully written and intellectually stimulating ethnography on a controversial topic that few anthropologists have examined. ... Drawing on rich ethnographic data, well-structured methodologies, and insightful interpretations of China's recent social changes, Zhang debunks many popular and scholarly stereotypes about male impotence. ... I would strongly recommend this book to scholars and students who are interested in medical anthropology, health, sexuality, gender, modernization, and Chinese studies., Taking on the difficult task of investigating the often stigmatized and unmentionable part of private life, Zhang has rendered his observations of an interviews with about 350 patients and/or their partners and two dozen doctors of TCM and biomedicine in Beijing and Chengdu into touching narratives that are intricately woven with insightful analysis. . . . Beautifully written., An excellent case of medical anthropology. . . .Zhang's ethnography about the impotence epidemic provides rich data and insightful analysis . . . and it furthers our understanding of the complexity and dynamics of post-Mao transformation., Everett Yuehong Zhang's ethnography about impotence is a tour de force. Repressed during the Cultural Revolution, sexual desire is today enhanced by doctors of nanke (men's medicine) who use an eclectic mix of herbal medicine and Viagra. By embedding the experience of impotence in specific historical, social, and political moments, with moveable moral implications, this sensitive subject can no longer be thought of simply as a failed 'neurovascular event.'|9780822358442|, The Impotence Epimidec offers a nuanced, sensitive, and powerful ethnographic analysis of impotence in contemporary China.... It will be of interest to scholars who focus on ethics and morality, gender and sexuality, body and society, modernity, the interplay between traditional Chinese medicine and biomedicine, and China's postsocialist transformation., [A] welcome contribution to the emerging body of valuable work that explores male reproductive identities and modalities through multidisciplinary approaches. The book is valuable for researchers, experts and scholars trying to pursue multidimensional methodological studies that superbly combine history, anthropology, ethnography and medical studies., The many life stories of trauma and unhappiness resulting from real or imagined sexual impotence presented here are often touching and depressing, but Everett Zhang has managed to skilfully weave these individual cases to produce an overall picture of men and women seeking ways to satisfy their desires rather than accepting their lot. . .. I applaud the optimistic and thoughtful tone he has adopted, and I fully recommend the book to anyone interested in China or how human beings cope with misfortune. ...[T]he topic is not a joyous one, but the book is a pleasure to read and I have no doubt it will be cited for years to come.
Dewey Edition
23
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Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
616.6/92200951
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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 economic reform and through the production of various desires in post-Maoist China. Based on interviews with 350 men and their partners from Beijing and Chengdu, and concerned with de-mystifying and de-stigmatizing impotence, Zhang suggests that the impotence epidemic represents not just trauma and suffering, but also a contagion of individualized desire and an affirmation for living a full life. For Zhang, studying male impotence in China is one way to comprehend the unique experience of Chinese modernity.
LC Classification Number
RC889.Z48 2015
Copyright Date
2015
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