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Social Networks, Drug Injectors Lives, and HIV/AIDS
Aids Prevention and Mental Health
Friedman, Samuel R/Curtis, Richard/Neaigus, Alan et al
ISBN/EAN: 9780306460791
Umbreit-Nr.: 1572596
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xx, 277 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 28.02.1999
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- Recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV. This book describes drug-use, the affects of poverty and homelessness, the acquisition of money and drugs, and social relationships within the group.