Trust, disruption and responsibility in accounts of injecting equipment sharing and hepatitis C risk.
Accounts of health-related risk behaviour are generated in a social context of risk acceptability and moral responsibility. Drawing upon qualitative semi-structured interviews with injecting drug users (IDUs) in Belgrade, Serbia (n = 67) and Podgorica and Bar, Montenegro (n = 32), we explore drug in...
| Publicado en: | Health, Risk & Society Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 221 - 241 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2008
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