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Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China by Elanah Uretsky (review)

Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China by Elanah Uretsky (review) Reviews 299 Elanah Uretsky. Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xv, 262 pp. Hardcover $85.00, isbn 978-08-04-79576-0. Paperback $25.95, isbn 978-08-0479753-5. E-book $25.95, isbn 978-08-04-79756-6. Over a period of eight years, medical anthropologist Elanah Uretsky gained the confidence of several high-level businessmen and government officials in the remote border town of Ruili, Yunnan Province, in order to explore HIV in China. She chose this location because Ruili was the site of China's first HIV epidemic in 1989, of 146 IV drug users, all of the Jingpo minority nationality (p. 15). Hers is a provocative and valuable premise: that Chinese businessmen and government officials are at increased risk for contracting HIV because of their regular visits to sex workers, but that they are ignored by both the government and the public health industry. Uretsky underscores the complexity of the HIV problem in this region and in China as a whole as intertwined with cultural and business practices, economics and trade, gender, and minority relations. The book is divided into two sections. The first half, "Building Guanxi: The Effect on China's Male Elite," examines the central importance of Chinese cultural practices http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China by Elanah Uretsky (review)

Johnson, Tina Phillips
China Review International , Volume 21 (3) – Jan 23, 2014
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Reviews 299 Elanah Uretsky. Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xv, 262 pp. Hardcover $85.00, isbn 978-08-04-79576-0. Paperback $25.95, isbn 978-08-0479753-5. E-book $25.95, isbn 978-08-04-79756-6. Over a period of eight years, medical anthropologist Elanah Uretsky gained the confidence of several high-level businessmen and government officials in the remote border town of Ruili, Yunnan Province, in order to explore HIV in China. She chose this location because Ruili was the site of China's first HIV epidemic in 1989, of 146 IV drug users, all of the Jingpo minority nationality (p. 15). Hers is a provocative and valuable premise: that Chinese businessmen and government officials are at increased risk for contracting HIV because of their regular visits to sex workers, but that they are ignored by both the government and the public health industry. Uretsky underscores the complexity of the HIV problem in this region and in China as a whole as intertwined with cultural and business practices, economics and trade, gender, and minority relations. The book is divided into two sections. The first half, "Building Guanxi: The Effect on China's Male Elite," examines the central importance of Chinese cultural practices

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Published: Jan 23, 2014

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