The moral economies of homeless heroin addicts: Confronting ethnography, HIV risk, and everyday violence in San Francisco shooting encampments

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2323-2351

  Bourgois, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Everyday violence; Gift giving economy; Heroin injection; HIV risk; Homelessness; Moral economy of sharing

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ETHNIC GROUP; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031714406     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826089809056260     Document Type: Review

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