Making male sexuality: Hybrid medical knowledge and erectile dysfunction in Mexico

Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 224-238

  Wentzell, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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