Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS
- ISBN-10
- 0306471612
- ISBN-13
- 9780306471612
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 277
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-11
- Publisher
- Springer Science & Business Media
- Authors
- Richard Curtis, Samuel R. Friedman, Alan Neaigus
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. 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.
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