Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS

di Samuel R. Friedman (Autore)

Richard Curtis (Autore)

Alan Neaigus (Autore)

Springer Science+Business Media, 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.

• Autore: Samuel R. Friedman, Richard Curtis, Alan Neaigus
• Editore: Springer Science+Business Media
• Collana: Aids Prevention and Mental Health
• Anno: 1999
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 277 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9780306460791

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