Science, medicine and virility surveillance: 'Sexy seniors' in the pharmaceutical imagination

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 211-224

  Marshall, Barbara L ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ageing; Biomedicalisation; Sexuality; Viagra

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; SILDENAFIL; SULFONE;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PIPERAZINES; PREJUDICE; PURINES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SULFONES;

EID: 77950172302     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01211.x     Document Type: Article

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