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SOCIAL NETWORKS, DRUG INJECTORS' LIVES, AND HIV/AIDS
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| By: |
Samuel R. Friedman, Richard Curtis, Alan Neaigus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£149.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441933131 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441933133 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
| Pub. date: |
5 December, 2010 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999 |
| Series: |
Aids Prevention and Mental Health |
| Pages: |
277 |
| 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
XX, 277 p. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |