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Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV AIDS (Aids Prevention and Mental Health)

By Richard Curtis , Samuel R. Friedman , Alan Neaigus , Benny Jose , Don C. Des Jarlais

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
9780306460791, 0306460793, 0306471612, 9780306471612
Open Library ID
OL9723646M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1256398 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
284\296
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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