Sex work and the state : during nation-building years 1959 -1999 by Kiam, Jesslyn Jian Hui

“…Secondly, the state reconfigured medical spaces to assemble and strengthen their medical knowledge on Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and to use the knowledge as an apparatus of power to discipline and regulate the health of the sex workers and the public. …”
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Curating the sexual health of a nation : misrepresentations of sexual health, STIs and HIV/AIDS from the colonial to the post-colonial by Muhammad Zaqeer Mohd Radz

“…Additionally, while scholars like Lenore Manderson have attempted to trace back the history of sexually transmitted diseases to the times of British Malaya, and while much of the recent scholarship around HIV/AIDS pertaining to Singapore focuses on the biological factors for the progression of AIDS amongst HIV patients, the sexual behaviors of individuals and medicinal studies. …”
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