Human Sexual Response
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few books in modern history have so profoundly reshaped scientific and cultural understanding of the human body as Human Sexual Response — a landmark work that brought rigorous clinical methodology to one of medicine's most long-neglected frontiers. Drawing on over a decade of direct laboratory observation involving hundreds of male and female participants, William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson present a meticulously detailed, physiological account of the human sexual response cycle, identifying its four distinct phases — excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution — with a precision and candour that was wholly unprecedented in 1966. Beyond its clinical significance, the work stands as a watershed moment in the history of medicine, psychology, and social policy, dismantling centuries of myth, moralising, and misinformation with hard, reproducible data. Masters and Johnson write with the measured authority of scientists committed to empirical truth, their prose as clinical as it is courageous. The broader implications of their research — for sex therapy, gender studies, and the modern understanding of intimacy — continue to reverberate through contemporary medicine and culture, making this volume as essential today as it was revolutionary upon its first publication.
Author: William H. Masters & Virginia E. Johnson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Medicine
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few books in modern history have so profoundly reshaped scientific and cultural understanding of the human body as Human Sexual Response — a landmark work that brought rigorous clinical methodology to one of medicine's most long-neglected frontiers. Drawing on over a decade of direct laboratory observation involving hundreds of male and female participants, William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson present a meticulously detailed, physiological account of the human sexual response cycle, identifying its four distinct phases — excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution — with a precision and candour that was wholly unprecedented in 1966. Beyond its clinical significance, the work stands as a watershed moment in the history of medicine, psychology, and social policy, dismantling centuries of myth, moralising, and misinformation with hard, reproducible data. Masters and Johnson write with the measured authority of scientists committed to empirical truth, their prose as clinical as it is courageous. The broader implications of their research — for sex therapy, gender studies, and the modern understanding of intimacy — continue to reverberate through contemporary medicine and culture, making this volume as essential today as it was revolutionary upon its first publication.