Marriage, sex, and hydrocele: An ethnographic study on the effect of filarial hydrocele on conjugal life and marriageability from Orissa, India

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Babu, Bontha V ^a,b   Mishra, Suchismita ^a   Nayak, Abhaya N ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYDROCELE; INDIA; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MARRIAGE; SCROTAL PAIN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; ADULT; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTICULAR HYDROCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549093660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000414     Document Type: Article

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