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Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS [[electronic resource] /] / Samuel R. Friedman ... [et al.]



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Titolo: Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS [[electronic resource] /] / Samuel R. Friedman ... [et al.] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Kluwer Academic, c1999
Edizione: 1st ed. 2002.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 pages)
Disciplina: 362.1/969792
Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Transmission
AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects
AIDS (Disease) - Risk factors
Intravenous drug abuse - Health aspects
Needle sharing - Health aspects
Health behavior
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: FriedmanSamuel R. <1942->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-20714-0
9786610207145
0-306-47161-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454994603321
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Serie: AIDS prevention and mental health.