Social Networks, Drug Injectors¿ Lives, and HIV/AIDS
Friedman, Samuel R. / Curtis, Richard / Des Jarlais, Don C. / Jose, Benny / Neaigus, Alan 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...