AIDS and Intravenous Drug Use - The Influence of Morality, Politics, Social Science, and Race in the Making of a Tragedy

List of contents

Introduction
The Wages of Sin Is Death
Intravenous Drug Use and AIDS: U.S. Inaction
The Myth of Needle Sharing: Heroin Subculture, Bleach, and the Impact On Liberalization
The Racial Implications of AIDS Research and Prevention: A Critical Commentary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

M. DANIEL FERNANDO is an anthropologist who has worked in the area of AIDS and drug use since 1987 in both counseling and research. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Since 1990 he has worked as a street ethnographer in HIV/AIDS prevention projects among intravenous drug users in New Jersey and New York. He has published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, AIDS and Public Policy Journal, and Transforming Anthropology.

Product details

• Authors: M. Daniel Fernando
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.1993
• EAN: 9780275942458
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94245-8
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Cultural Studies, MEDICAL / Immunology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Allergies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Central / national / federal government policies, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Central government policies, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, Medicine: Allergies, Health and Wellness: Diseases and Conditions