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1 online resource (268 pages) illustrations |
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Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World |
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Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Summary |
How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on medical sources and personal testimonies, it reveals how men responded to bouts of ill health and their relationships with the medical practitioners tasked with curing them. In doing so, this study restores men's health to medical histories of reproduction, demonstrating how men's sexual self-identity was tied to their health. Charting genitourinary conditions across the life cycle, the book illustrates how fertility and potency were key to medical understandings of men's health. Men utilized networks of care to help them with ostensibly embarrassing and shameful conditions like hernias, venereal disease, bladder stones, and testicular injuries. The book thus offers a historical voice to modern calls for men to be alert to, and open about, their own bodily health |
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History, Art History, and Archaeology |
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HIS |
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Early Modern Studies |
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EARLY MOD |
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Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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GEND & SEXU |
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Health and Medicine |
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HEALTH & MED |
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Health, Medicine, Masculinity, Early Modern, Gender |
| Notes |
"Amsterdam University Press" |
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Sexual Health and the Life Cycle 1. Disrupting Manly Development: Issues in Infancy and Childhood 2. A Moment of Crisis: Flagging Phalluses and Failing Fertility 3. Old Lechers: Ageing Bodies and Manhood in Decline Part Two: Patients and Practitioners 4. Embarrassment and Reticence 5. In 'soe much payne he coud not indure it' 6. Family Matters 7. Unruly Patients |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Sexual health -- England -- History
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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History, 17th Century
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History, 18th Century
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
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Gender studies: men.
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History of medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Men's Health.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality.
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)
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Medicine.
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Sexual health.
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Gender studies: men and boys.
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Medicine: general issues.
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Sex and sexuality: advice and issues.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9048537762 |
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9789048537761 |
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