The philosophy of Viagra : bioethical responses to the Viagrification of the modern world / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.

Contributor(s):

Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Value inquiry book series ; v. 230. | Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of sex and love.Publication details: Amsterdam : Rodopi, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 227 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789401200363
940120036X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philosophy of Viagra.DDC classification:

616.6/922 23

LOC classification:

RC889 .P456 2011eb

NLM classification:

2011 G-058
WJ 709

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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

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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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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WORKS CITEDABOUT THE AUTHORS; INDEX

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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