| 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: 0306460793 ISBN-13: 9780306460791 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Psychology | Psychopathology - Addiction - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.196 |
| LCCN: 98055920 |
| Series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.1" W x 9.44" (1.28 lbs) 277 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - AIDS |
| 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. |