Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS

by Don C. Des Jarlais, Alan Neaigus, Richard Curtis, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306460793
• ISBN13: 9780306460791
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"