Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780306460791)

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.

Author: Samuel R. Friedman,Richard Curtis,Alan Neaigus
ISBN-10: 0306460793
ISBN-13: 9780306460791
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 02/28/1999
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.10w x 0.81d