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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
- P. Bourgois
- Psychology, History
- 1 June 1997
Contents:
Introduction
1.Violating apartheid in the United States
2. A street history of El Barrio
3. Crackhouse management: addiction, discipline, and dignity
4. "Goin' legit": disrespect and… Expand
The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.
- T. Rhodes, M. Singer, P. Bourgois, S. Friedman, S. Strathdee
- Medicine
- Social science & medicine
- 1 September 2005
There is increasing appreciation of the need to understand how social and structural factors shape HIV risk. Drawing on a review of recently published literature, we seek to describe the social… Expand
Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States
- J. Quesada, L. Hart, P. Bourgois
- Medicine
- Medical anthropology
- 21 June 2011
Latino immigrants in the United States constitute a paradigmatic case of a population group subject to structural violence. Their subordinated location in the global economy and their culturally… Expand
The moral economies of homeless heroin addicts: confronting ethnography, HIV risk, and everyday violence in San Francisco shooting encampments.
- P. Bourgois
- Sociology, Medicine
- Substance use & misuse
- 1998
Ethnographic immersion among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco documents far more risky practices than the public health literature routinely reports. The logics of street-based… Expand
Disciplining Addictions: The Bio-politics of Methadone and Heroin in the United States
- P. Bourgois
- Psychology, Medicine
- Culture, medicine and psychiatry
- 1 June 2000
Biomedical understanding of methadone as a magic-bullet pharmacologicalblock to the euphoric effects of heroin is inconsistent with epidemiologicaland clinical data. An ethnographic perspective on… Expand
Hepatitis C virus seroconversion among young injection drug users: relationships and risks.
- J. Hahn, K. Page-Shafer, +7 authors A. Moss
- Medicine
- The Journal of infectious diseases
- 1 December 2002
The present study examined reasons for the high incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among young injection drug users (IDUs). IDUs <30 years old who tested negative for HCV antibody were… Expand
"Every 'never' I ever said came true": transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting.
- Sarah G. Mars, P. Bourgois, G. Karandinos, F. Montero, D. Ciccarone
- Medicine
- The International journal on drug policy
- 1 March 2014
This qualitative study documents the pathways to injecting heroin by users in Philadelphia and San Francisco before and during a pharmaceutical opioid pill epidemic. Data was collected through… Expand
The Power of Violence in War and Peace
- P. Bourgois
- Sociology
- 1 March 2001
The Cold War sanitized the author's analysis of political violence among revolutionary peasants in El Salvador during the 1980s. A 20-year retrospective analysis of his fieldnote(s) documents the… Expand
The Everyday Violence of Hepatitis C Among Young Women Who Inject Drugs in San Francisco.
- P. Bourgois, B. Prince, A. Moss
- Sociology, Medicine
- Human organization
- 1 September 2004
A theoretical understanding of the gendered contours of structural, everyday and symbolic violence suggests that young addicted women are particularly vulnerable to the infectious diseases caused by… Expand
In search of masculinity: violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem
- P. Bourgois
- Psychology
- 1996
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted while residing next to a crack house in El Barrio, New York, for almost five years, this article analyses how the social and economic marginalization of… Expand