Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Aids Prevention and Mental Health
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	1999
Authors:	Samuel R. Friedman • Richard Curtis • Alan Neaigus • Benny Jose • Don C. Des Jarlais
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-3313-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > General
LSN:	1-4419-3313-1
Barcode:	9781441933133

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