(Topics in Clinical Urology.) Edited by John J. Mulcahy. 262 pp., illustrated. New York, Igaku-Shoin, 1997. $79.50. ISBN 0-89640-322-X.
A mere decade or two ago, most clinicians believed that thecause of male sexual dysfunction was largely psychogenic, andepidemiologic data from the 1940s suggested that fewer than5 million men had erectile dysfunction. In the intervening periodwe have learned much about the anatomy and physiology of erectionand have come to recognize that in the majority of men withsexual dysfunction there are organic causes. Furthermore, recentstudies have shown that this condition currently affects asmany as 20 million men. This knowledge has opened a vast newworld of diagnostic and therapeutic options for patients, one. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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