Using material from the Pfizer sponsored website providing health information on
erectile dysfunction to potential Swedish Viagra customers ( www.potenslinjen.se
), this article explores the public image of masculinity in relation to sexual
health and the cultural techniques for creating pharmaceutical appeal. We zoom
in on the targeted ideal users of Viagra, and the nationalized, racialized and
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The focus of the study is the conflict between care and concern for particular
patients, versus considerations that take impartial considerations of justice to
be central to moral deliberations. To examine these questions we have conducted
qualitative interviews with health professionals in Norwegian hospitals. We
found a value norm that implicitly seemed to overrule all others, the norm of
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This paper discusses the use of the Milgram obedience experiments and the
Tuskegee syphilis study in the bioethical literature. The two studies are
presented and a variety of uses of them identified and discussed. It is argued
that the use of these studies as paradigms of problematic research relies on a
reduction of their complexity. What is discussed is thus often constructions of
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