Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS [electronic resource] /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Friedman, Samuel R. author., Curtis, Richard. author., Neaigus, Alan. author., Jose, Benny. author., Jarlais, Don C. Des. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002
Subjects:	Medicine., Public health., Health promotion., Infectious diseases., Medicine & Public Health., Public Health., Health Promotion and Disease Prevention., Infectious Diseases.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b112219
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