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social networks, drug injectors` lives, and hiv/aids (in English)
Richard Curtis
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Samuel R. Friedman
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Alan Neaigus
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Springer
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social networks, drug injectors` lives, and hiv/aids (in English) - Friedman, Samuel R. ; Curtis, Richard ; Neaigus, Alan
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Synopsis "social networks, drug injectors` lives, and hiv/aids (in 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.