Author : Samuel R. Friedman
Release : 2005-12-27
Genre : Medical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS by : Samuel R. Friedman

Download or read book Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS written by Samuel R. Friedman. This book was released on 2005-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.