Michale Anderson

Modern medical textbooks have all become so much more informative. A simple statement reflecting the vast amount of knowledge that has been accumulated through research over the last one hundred years.

Every year, the pharmaceutical industry in the USA spends billions of dollars on direct-to-consumer advertisements for medications that are only available on prescription. In other countries, such advertising is often banned.

The problem with writing articles is that it forces you to take a small piece of something complicated and say a little about it. In a book you have more space to explore the issues at length - which neatly bring me to Impotence: a Cultural History...

When anyone mentions erectile dysfunction, the people within earshot tend to act as if someone just died. As a topic, it is so intimately associated with shame and embarrassment that it has become the ultimate conversation stopper.