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SEXUAL HEALTH: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE Meredith Temple-Smith and Sandra Gifford (eds) Melbourne: IP Communications, 2005, ISBN 0975237411 335 pp, PB, AUD 65.00.
If ever a search was made for the holy grail of a unified field theory of sexual health, medicine and social sciences, then this book comes close to it. No longer is sexual health the exclusive domain of the physical and biological, an activity that takes place 'between the sheets' or to be privately discussed between patient and doctor. Sexual health is multi-faceted, viewed in an all-encompassing framework that involves the complex and interdependent relationships between biology, psychology and socio-historical-cultural factors.
The book sets out this multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary framework in five parts. Part 1 offers a concise history and selected studies on sexual health in Australia; Part 2 discusses male and female biological functions and provides psychological and anthropological perspectives on sexual health; Part 3 discusses sexually transmissible infections found commonly in Australia and talks...
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