Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS Paperback / softback
by Samuel R. Friedman, Richard Curtis, Alan Neaigus, Benny Jose, Don C. Des Jarlais
Part of the Aids Prevention and Mental Health series
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Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV. The authors recount the groundbreaking use of social network methods, ethnographic direct-observation techniques, and in-depth interviews in their study of a drug-using community in Brooklyn, New York.
They provide a detailed documentary of the lives of community members.
They describe drug-use, the affects of poverty and homelessness, the acquisition of money and drugs, and social relationships within the group. Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS shows that social networks and contexts are of crucial importance in understanding and fighting the AIDS epidemic.
These findings should revitalize prevention efforts and reshape social policy.
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- Pages:277 pages, XX, 277 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:05/12/2010
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- ISBN:9781441933133
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:277 pages, XX, 277 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:05/12/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781441933133