Where the Girls Are: The management of venereal disease by United States military forces in Vietnam

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-87

  Sun, Sue ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MILITARY MEDICINE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOLDIER; TIME; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; WAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIETNAM; WAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 4143066164     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2004.0013     Document Type: Review

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