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Volume 357:1986-1988 November 8, 2007 Number 19

Sexual Health, Volume 1: Psychological Foundations; Volume 2: Physical Foundations; Volume 3: Moral and Cultural Foundations; Volume 4: State-of-the-Art Treatments and Research

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(Praeger Perspectives: Sex, Love, and Psychology.) Edited by Mitchell S. Tepper and Annette Fuglsang Owens. 1762 pp. total, illustrated. Westport, CT, Praeger, 2007. $425. ISBN 978-0-275-98774-9. (Vol. 1 ISBN, 978-0-275-98775-6; Vol. 2 ISBN, 978-0-275-98776-3; Vol. 3 ISBN, 978-0-275-98777-0; Vol. 4 ISBN, 978-0-275-98778-7.)

I read the four-volume set of Sexual Health just as I was at risk of becoming a bit too smug in my self-proclaimed identity as an "expert" in sexual medicine. I barely made it through the first volume before I was humbled by the extent and diversity of the information that the editors have assembled. I was reminded — as all of us in the field should be — of how complex the field of sexual health is and how intricately connected it is to numerous disparate scientific disciplines. Although readers might not be surprised to see chapters on anatomy . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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