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

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

Friedman, Samuel R.
Curtis, Richard
Neaigus, Alan

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Series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health

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ISBN10: 1441933131
ISBN13: 9781441933133
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 6 2010
Pages: 277
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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