Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS /
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 u...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Kluwer Academic,
©2002.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0306471612 9780306471612 0306460793 9780306460791 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index. |
| Series: | AIDS prevention and mental health.
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