Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Kluwer Academic, c1999.
Description:	xvii, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	AIDS prevention and mental health
Subject:	AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission. AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects. AIDS (Disease) -- Risk factors. Intravenous drug abuse -- Health aspects. Needle sharing -- Health aspects. Health behavior. AIDS (Disease) -- Risk factors. AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects. AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission. Health behavior. Intravenous drug abuse -- Health aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4067810

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Other authors / contributors:	Friedman, Samuel R., 1942-
ISBN:	0306460793
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. `Learning from Lives'
3. The Drug Scene and Risk Behaviors in Bushwick
4. The Very First Hit; with K.A. Atwood
5. Network Concepts and Serosurvey Methods
6. The Research Participants and their Behaviors
7. Personal Risk Networks and High-Risk Injecting Settings of Drug Injectors
8. Syringe Sharing and the Social Characteristics of Drug-Injecting Dyads
9. Sexual Networks, Condom Use, and the Prospects for HIV Spread to Non-Injection Drug Users
10. Sociometric Networks among Bushwick Drug Injectors
11. Networks and HIV and other Infections
12. Prevention and Research
13. Appendix: Methods for Assigning Linkages in Studies of Drug Injector Networks; with G. Ildefonso
References
Index

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