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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.
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.
This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems
approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical
lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on
social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two
fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly
socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good
and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is
organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human
problems; the social construction of health problems; social
movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care;
and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate
the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and
medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our
understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.
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