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UNINA9910817950503321 |
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Titolo |
Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS / / Samuel R. Friedman ... [et al.] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Kluwer Academic, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-20714-0 |
9786610207145 |
0-306-47161-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2002.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 pages) |
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Collana |
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AIDS prevention and mental health |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FriedmanSamuel R. <1942-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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AIDS (Disease) - Transmission |
AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects |
AIDS (Disease) - Risk factors |
Intravenous drug abuse - Health aspects |
Needle sharing - Health aspects |
Health behavior |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Learning from Lives -- The Drug Scene and Risk Behaviors in Bushwick -- The Very First Hit -- Network Concepts and Serosurvey Methods -- The Research Participants and Their Behaviors -- Personal Risk Networks and High-Risk Injecting Settings of Drug Injectors -- Syringe Sharing and the Social Characteristics of Drug-Injecting Dyads -- Sexual Networks, Condom Use, and the Prospects for HIV Spread to Non-Injection Drug Users -- Sociometric Networks among Bushwick Drug Injectors -- Networks and HIV and Other Infections -- Prevention and Research. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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