The philosophy of Viagra : bioethical responses to the Viagrification of the modern world / / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; v. 230. Philosophy of sex and love
• TeilnehmendeR: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 230.; Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of sex and love.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; VIAGRA, LIFESTYLE, AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE /; EROS, VIAGRA, AND THE GOOD LIFE: REFLECTIONS ON CEPHALUS AND PLATONIC MODERATION /; DIOGENES OF SINOPE GETS HARD ON VIAGRA /; A QUESTION OF VIRTUOUS SEX: WOULD ARISTOTLE TAKE VIAGRA? /; MAN’S FALLEN STATE: ST. AUGUSTINE ON VIAGRA /; VIAGRA AND THE UTOPIA OF IMMORTALITY /; ENHANCING DESIRE PHILOSOPHICALLY: FEMINISM, VIAGRA, AND THE BIOPOLITICS OF THE FUTURE /; RED PILL OR BLUE PILL? VIAGRA AND THE VIRTUAL /; VIRILITY, VIAGRA, AND VIRTUE: RE-READING HUMANE VITAE IN AN AFRICAN LIGHT /; ERECTING NEW GOALS FOR MEDICINE: VIAGRA AND MEDICALIZATION /; DESIRE AND ITS MYSTERIES: ERECTILE STIMULATORS BETWEEN THIGHS AND SELVES /; AMERICA AND VIAGRA OR HOW THE WHITE NEGRO BECAME A LITTLE WHITER: VIAGRA AS AN AFRO-DISIAC /; DAVID HUME MEETS VIAGRA: THE MISUSE OF THE SCIENCE OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION /; A SHORT NOTE ON VIAGRA AND THANATOS /; COMPARATIVE MELIORATION AND PATHOLOGICAL PATHOGENIZATION IN VIAGRA MARKETING /; ERECTUS INTERRUPTUS: ALL ERECTIONS ARE NOT EQUAL /; WORKS CITED --; ABOUT THE AUTHORS --; INDEX --; VIBS.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 940120036X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.

The impotency remedy Viagra is the fastest selling drug in history. It has grown beyond being simply a medical phenomenon, but has achieved the status of cultural icon, appearing on television as a pretext for jokes or even as a murder weapon. Viagra has socio-cultural implications that are not limited to sexuality. The Philosophy of Viagra offers a unique perspective as it examines the phenomenon of Viagra through ideas derived from more than two thousand years of philosophical reasoning. In philosophy, Eros has always had a central position. Since Plato, philosophy has held that desire is not only a medical but also a spiritual phenomenon and that scientific explanations claiming to give an exhaustive account of erotic perception are misleading. Philosophical ideas are able to debunk various scientific rationalizations of sexuality – one of which is the clinical-sexological discourse on Viagra. In this volume, several authors interpret Viagra through the lens of classical philosophy explicating the themes of immortality and hedonism. Others offer psychoanalytical considerations by confronting clinical sexology with psychological realities. Still others evoke intercultural aspects revealing the relative character of potency that the phenomenon of Viagra attempts to gloss over.