Anthropology of AIDS. Risk environment and injecting routine – the case of Belgrade injecting drug users
Anthropology of AIDS. Risk environment and injecting routine – the case of Belgrade injecting drug users
Author(s): Bojan ŽikićSubject(s): Anthropology, Methodology and research technology, Substance abuse and addiction, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: HIV/HCV risk management; risk environment; injecting routine; qualitative research; anthropology of AIDS;
Summary/Abstract: Risk environment is usually seen as physical and social one; first concerns physical space of injecting, while second deals with people who inject and their relations. Injecting routine is designation for set of IDUs habitual life. Management of risk related to HIV/HCV is reviewed and discussed after the results of qualitative anthropological research conducted among the Belgrade IDUs , due to establishing, performing and disrupting injecting routines within physical and social risk environments.
Journal: Етноантрополошки проблеми
- Issue Year: 1/2006
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 37-49
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English