Integrating cultural, observational, and epidemiological approaches in the prevention of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS
By: editors, Patricia Loomis Marshall, Merrill Singer, Michael C. Clatts.
Contributors: Marshall, Patricia Loomis, 1952-; Singer, Merrill.; Clatts, Michael Craig.; National Institute on Drug Abuse Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research.; National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Series: DHHS publication ;; no. (NIH) 99-4565
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bethesda, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology -- Congresses.; Substance abuse -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; HIV infections -- Prevention -- Congresses.; Substance Abuse, Intravenous -- prevention & control -- congresses.; HIV Infections -- prevention & control -- congresses.; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- congresses.; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology -- congresses.
Genres: Congresses.; congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Based on papers presented at the conference 'Integrating Anthropological Approaches in Epidemiological and Prevention Research on Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS: Current Status and Future Prospects' held September 24-25, 1996 in Washington D.C."--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: frontiers in AIDS and drug abuse prevention research / Merrill Singer, Patricia Loomis Marshall, and Michael C. Clatts; title: Toward a critical biocultural model of drug use and health risk / Merrill Singer; title: To theorize or not to theorize: anthropological research in drugs and aids / J. Bryan Page and Robert T. Trotter II; title: Interdisciplinary research on the transmission of blood-borne pathogens in drug injection practices: applications of ethnography in epidemiology and public health / Michael C. Clatts, Robert Heimer, Jo L. Sotheran, and Lloyd A. Goldsamt; title: Complexities in the lives of female drug uses in the AIDS era / Claire E. Sterk; title: Researching risk: prevention research on substance abuse, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Asia and Australia / Lenore Manderson; title: Neighborhood violence in New York City and indigenous attempts to contain it / Ric Curtis and Ansley Hamid; title: Access and adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS in injection drug uses: a social course perspective / Norma C. Ware and Toni Tugenberg; title: Ethics, ethnography, drug use, and AIDS / Merrill Singer, [et. al.]; title: An approach to ethical decision making in ethnographic research on HIV prevention and drug use / Patricia Loomis Marshall; title: The ethnography of street drug use before AIDS: a historical review / Merrill Singer.