The Medicalization of Female Sexual Dysfunction: The Need for Caution

2002/10/01 by John Bancroft · 13 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Adaptive response #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Female sexual dysfunction #Gender studies #Human sexuality #Marriage and Sexual Relationships #Medicalization #Medicine #Orgasm #Population #Psychiatry #Psychology #Sexual attraction #Sexual behavior #Sexual dysfunction #Sexual function and dysfunction studies #Sexual intercourse

paper · doi:10.1023/a:1019800426980

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