Tapping into The Wire : the real urban crisis /
Beilenson, Peter L.
McGuire, Patrick A.(Patrick Anthony),1946-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The new public health crisis : Wallace's world -- Heroin central : the street life of Bubbles, Marlo, and Johnny -- Losing the war on drugs : the pit versus the police -- Medicalize vs. legalize : Hamsterdam -- Needle exchange and the AIDS dilemma : sticking it to "the bug" -- Treatment on demand as a strategy : Walon's success story -- School performance and the MIA parent : the tragedy of Dukie's education -- Teenage pregnancy and STDS : Shardene's escape -- Firepower : Snoop's Beretta, Avon's Heckler, and Omar's Mossberg -- Place matters : why didn't Bodie just leave? -- Of paint and guns : did Omar die of lead poisoning? -- Obese yet malnourished : the weighty contradiction of Prop Joe -- Public health and politics : the promise and peril of Tommy Carcetti -- Learning from the wire: practicing politics to practice medicine.
Beilenson, Peter L.
Urban health
Social problems