| Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Friedman, Samuel R. (Author), Curtis, Richard (Author), Neaigus, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1441933131 ISBN-13: 9781441933133 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Public Health - Medical | Administration - Medical | Infectious Diseases |
| Dewey: 362.196 |
| Series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.92 lbs) 277 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |