Constructing risk across timescales and trajectories: Gay men's stories of sexual encounters

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-213

  Jones, Rodney H ^a   Candlin, Christopher N ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Gay; HIV AIDS; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EXPERIENCE; HISTORY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LANGUAGE; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORY;

EID: 0038726510     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369857031000123966     Document Type: Article

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