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- Title
Reinterpreting ethnic patterns among white and African American men who inject heroin: a social science of medicine approach.
- Authors
Bourgois, Philippe; Martinez, Alexis; Kral, Alex; Edlin, Brian R; Schonberg, Jeff; Ciccarone, Dan
- Abstract
Street-based heroin injectors represent an especially vulnerable population group subject to negative health outcomes and social stigma. Effective clinical treatment and public health intervention for this population requires an understanding of their cultural environment and experiences. Social science theory and methods offer tools to understand the reasons for economic and ethnic disparities that cause individual suffering and stress at the institutional level.
- Publication
PLoS medicine, 2006, Vol 3, Issue 10, pe452
- ISSN
1549-1676
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.0030452