Versemaking and lovemaking - W. B. Yeats' "strange second puberty": Norman Haire and the Steinach rejuvenation operation

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-50

  Wyndham, Diana ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ART; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HISTORY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; LOVE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC FIGURE; REJUVENATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM; VASECTOMY;

AGING; AUSTRALIA; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LOVE; MALE; NORTHERN IRELAND; POETRY; PORTRAITS; REJUVENATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VASECTOMY;

EID: 0038652195     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.10091     Document Type: Review

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