Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780789017758)

This unique book draws on nearly two hundred face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their counterparts in four large Mexican cities. It illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between street prostitutes in the two countries; differences arising from the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work in each country. Helpful tables and an appendix containing the author's survey questions make the data in this well-referenced book easily understandable.

Author: R. Dennis Shelby,David J. Bellis
ISBN-10: 078901775X
ISBN-13: 9780789017758
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2003
Pages: 142
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.76h x 6.04w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1514