Attempts to bridge positivist and postmodern approaches to theories of human sexual behavior. Attempting to bridge the epistemological gaps between "positivist" and "postmodern" approaches to theoretical models of sexual behavior, this book brings together essays and discussion by scholars representing a range of viewpoints and contrasting theoretical approaches. The essays examine four areas: sexuality through the life cycle, sexual orientation, individual differences in sexual risk taking, and adolescent sexual behavior.
John Bancroft, M.D., was trained in medicine at Cambridge University and in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He has been Director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University since May 1995. For the previous 19 years he was Clinical Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Reproductive Biology Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has extensive research and clinical experience in the relationship of reproductive hormones to sexuality and well-being, psychophysiology and pharmacology of sexual response, and the management of sexual problems. He is author of Human Sexuality and Its Problems (2nd edition, 1989), was founding editor of Annual Review of Sex Research, and a past president of the International Academy of Sex Research.
Distribution: World Publication date: 6/1/2000 |
