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 u...

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Hauptverfasser:	Friedman, Samuel R. (VerfasserIn), Curtis, Richard (VerfasserIn), Neaigus, Alan (VerfasserIn), Jose, Benny (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Boston, MA Springer US 2002
Schriftenreihe:	Aids Prevention and Mental Health
Schlagworte:	Public Health Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Infectious Diseases Medicine Emerging infectious diseases Soziales Netzwerk Gesundheitsverhalten Drogenabhängigkeit HIV-Infektion
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (XX, 277 p)
ISBN:	9780306471612
DOI:	10.1007/b112219