1 A New Definition and the Backstory: Inventing Sexual Health

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Introduction: Catching Sexual Health 1
6. Part 1: Making Sexual Health: Invention, Dispersion, and Reassembly
7. 1 A New Definition and the Backstory: Inventing Sexual Health 33
8. 2 Proliferation and Ambiguity: The Buzzwording of Sexual Health 61
9. 3 New Projects of Health, Rights, and Pleasure: Recombining Sexual Health 91
10. Part 2: Operationalizing Sexual Health: Enabling Science, Medicine, and Health Care
11. 4 Sexuality in the Medical Encounter: Standardizing Sexual Health 123
12. 5 Diagnostic Reform and Human Rights in the ICD: Classifying Sexual Health 136
13. 6 Surveys and the Quantification of Normality: Enumerating Sexual Health 166
14. 7 The New Sexual Health Experts: Evaluating Sexual Health 181
15. Part 3: Under the Sign of Sexual Health: Beyond the Worlds of Science and Medicine
16. 8 The Pursuit of Wellness: Optimizing Sexual Health 207
17. 9 Social Risks, Rights, and Duties: Governing via Sexual Health 233
18. 10 Bridges to the Future: Repoliticizing Sexual Health 260
19. Conclusion: Whither Sexual Health? 283
20. Acknowledgments 309
21. Notes 313
22. Index 419