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Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV / AIDS
Friedman, Samuel R.; Curtis, Richard; Neaigus, Alan; Jose, Benny; Jarlais, Don Des
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Description for Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV / AIDS
Hardback. 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. Series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1320.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Series
AIDS Prevention and Mental Health
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306460791
SKU
V9780306460791
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV / AIDS
`This is an interesting, important, and well-written book. It contains a great deal of useful new information about the risk behaviours of drug injectors and how they respond or fail to respond to those risks... The book provides detail about how individual drug injectors understand and try cope with these immediate risks. It stands as a considerable achievement and one ... Read more