Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS

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

Friedman, Samuel R.
Curtis, Richard
Neaigus, Alan

Hardcover

Series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health

Medical ReferenceAddiction & Recovery

ISBN10: 0306460793
ISBN13: 9780306460791
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 28 1999
Pages: 277
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.44
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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Medical Reference

View All