'For me... it's a miracle': Injecting beauty among kathoeis in a provincial Thai city

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 798-803

  Poompruek, Panoopat ^a,b   Boonmongkon, Pimpawun ^a   Guadamuz, Thomas E ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b SILPAKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Beauty; Injection parties; Kathoeis; Thailand; Transformation; Transgender

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; INJECTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BONDING; SOCIALIZATION; THAILAND; TRANSGENDERISM; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BODY IMAGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSGENDER; URBAN POPULATION;

COSMETIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BODY IMAGE; COSMETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX WORKERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THAILAND; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84906050965     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: 18734758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.06.015     Document Type: Article

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