The philosophy of Viagra : bioethical responses to the Viagrification of the modern world / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789401200363
- 940120036X
- Impotence -- Social aspects
- Sex (Psychology)
- Sildenafil
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Bioethics
- Erectile Dysfunction -- drug therapy
- Piperazines -- therapeutic use
- Bioethical Issues
- Erectile Dysfunction -- psychology
- Men's Health
- Sexual Behavior -- psychology
- Drug Industry
- Impuissance sexuelle -- Aspect social
- Sexualité (Psychologie)
- Sildénafil
- Industrie pharmaceutique
- Bioéthique
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Infertility
- Sildenafil
- Bioethics
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Sex (Psychology)
- 616.6/922 23
- RC889 .P456 2011eb
- 2011 G-058
- WJ 709
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
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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