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1 online resource (vi, 227 pages) |
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Value inquiry book series ; v. 230. Philosophy of sex and love |
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Value inquiry book series ; v. 230.
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Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of sex and love.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION: Viagra, Lifestyle, and the Philosophical Perspective; ONE Eros, Viagra, and the Good Life: Reflections on Cephalusand Platonic Moderation; TWO Diogenes of Sinope Gets Hard on Viagra; THREE A Question of Virtuous Sex: Would Aristotle Take Viagra?; FOUR Man's Fallen State: St. Augustine on Viagra; FIVE Viagra and the Utopia of Immortality; SIX Enhancing Desire Philosophically: Feminism, Viagra,and the Biopolitics of the Future; SEVEN Red Pill or Blue Pill? Viagra and the Virtual |
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EIGHT Virility, Viagra, and Virtue: Re-Reading Humane Vitaein an African LightNINE Erecting New Goals for Medicine: Viagraand Medicalization; TEN Desire and its Mysteries: Erectile StimulatorsBetween Thighs and Selves; ELEVEN America and Viagra or How the White Negro Becamea Little Whiter: Viagra as an Afro-Disiac; TWELVE David Hume Meets Viagra: The Misuse of the Scienceof Erectile Dysfunction; THIRTEEN A Short Note on Viagra and Thanatos; FOURTEEN Comparative Melioration and Pathological Pathogenizationin Viagra Marketing; FIFTEEN Erectus Interruptus: All Erections Are Not Equal |
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WORKS CITEDABOUT THE AUTHORS; INDEX |
| Summary |
The impotency remedy Viagra is the fastest selling drug in history. It has grown beyond being simply a medical phenomenon, but has achieved the status of cultural icon, appearing on television as a pretext for jokes or even as a murder weapon. Viagra has socio-cultural implications that are not limited to sexuality. The Philosophy of Viagra offers a unique perspective as it examines the phenomenon of Viagra through ideas derived from more than two thousand years of philosophical reasoning. In philosophy, Eros has always had a central position. Since Plato, philosophy has held that desire is no |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Impotence -- Social aspects
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sildenafil.
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Pharmaceutical industry
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Bioethics.
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Erectile Dysfunction -- drug therapy
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Piperazines -- therapeutic use
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Bioethical Issues
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Erectile Dysfunction -- psychology
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Men's Health
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Sexual Behavior -- psychology
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Drug Industry
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Infertility.
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Sildenafil
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Bioethics
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Pharmaceutical industry
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Sex (Psychology)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
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| ISBN |
9789401200363 |
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940120036X |
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