Manufacturing desire: The commodification of female sexual dysfunction

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-218

  Fishman, Jennifer R ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Clinical trials; Commercialism; Medical education; Pharmaceutical drugs; Viagra

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DRUG INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMERCE; DRUG INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2642549885     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312704043028     Document Type: Article

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