'Mobile men with money': The socio-cultural and politicoeconomic context of 'high-risk' behaviour among wealthy businessmen and government officials in urban China

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 801-814

  Uretsky, Elanah ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; HIV; Masculinity; Sexual culture; Work

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MASCULINITY; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 55449108988     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050802380966     Document Type: Article

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