Secret encounters: Black men, bisexuality, and AIDS in Alabama

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 374-393

  Lichtenstein, Bronwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Alabama; Bisexuality; Black men

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BISEXUALITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRISON; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SAFE SEX; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALABAMA; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREJUDICE; PRISONS; RISK FACTORS; SAFE SEX; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0034263564     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2000.14.3.374     Document Type: Article

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