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.
Main Authors: | Friedman, Samuel R. author., Curtis, Richard. author., Neaigus, Alan. author., Jose, Benny. author., Jarlais, Don C. Des. author., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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Format: | Texto biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
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Boston, MA : Springer US,
2002
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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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