Middle-class heterosexual men are rarely portrayed as a vulnerable population as far as HIV is concerned; in China they are neither included in official statistics nor in HIV prevention programmes. But there is an unseen vulnerability to this otherwise powerful group, one that Elanah Uretsky reveals in Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China. This wonderfully written and empirically rich book shines an important light on the unintended public health consequences of yingchou, an informal practice common among Chinese businessmen that involves heavy drinking, eating, smoking, and, sometimes, commercial sex.
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