Research Catalog

Title

Integrating cultural, observational, and epidemiological approaches in the prevention of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS / editors, Patricia Loomis Marshall, Merrill Singer, Michael C. Clatts.

Publication

Bethesda, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clatts, Michael C.
• Marshall, Patricia Loomis.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse. Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research.
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
• Singer, Merrill.

Description

vii, 264 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

DHHS publication ; no. (NIH) 99-4565

Uniform Title

DHHS publication ; no. (NIH) 99-4565.

Subjects

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > ethnology
• Congress
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
• Substance Abuse, Intravenous > prevention & control
• HIV Infections > prevention & control

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: frontiers in AIDS and drug abuse prevention research / Merrill Singer, Patricia Loomis Marshall, and Michael C. Clatts -- Toward a critical biocultural model of drug use and health risk / Merrill Singer -- To theorize or not to theorize: anthropological research in drugs and aids / J. Bryan Page and Robert T. Trotter II -- 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 -- Complexities in the lives of female drug uses in the AIDS era / Claire E. Sterk -- Researching risk: prevention research on substance abuse, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Asia and Australia / Lenore Manderson -- Neighborhood violence in New York City and indigenous attempts to contain it / Ric Curtis and Ansley Hamid -- Access and adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS in injection drug uses: a social course perspective / Norma C. Ware and Toni Tugenberg -- Ethics, ethnography, drug use, and AIDS / Merrill Singer, [et. al.] -- An approach to ethical decision making in ethnographic research on HIV prevention and drug use / Patricia Loomis Marshall -- The ethnography of street drug use before AIDS: a historical review / Merrill Singer.

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