The quest for sexual health : how an elusive ideal has transformed science, politics, and everyday life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epstein, Steven (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2022]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Catching sexual health
  • A new definition and the backstory : inventing sexual health
  • Proliferation and ambiguity : the buzzwording of sexual health
  • New projects of health, rights, and pleasure : recombining sexual health
  • Sexuality in the medical encounter : standardizing sexual health
  • Diagnostic reform and human rights in the ICD : classifying sexual health
  • Surveys and the quantification of normality : enumerating sexual health
  • The new sexual health experts : evaluating sexual health
  • The pursuit of wellness : optimizing sexual health
  • Social risks, rights, and duties : governing via sexual health
  • Bridges to the future : repoliticizing sexual health
  • Conclusion. Whither sexual health?