Table of Contents

Social networks and health - an overview: The role of social networks in health, illness, disease and healing - the accepting present, the forgotten past and the dangerous potential for a complacent future, B.A. Pescosolido, J.A. Levy. Linking social network theory to disease prevention: Social support and social networks - synthesis and review, A.D. Faber, S. Wasserman; Infectious disease control - combining molecular biological and network methods, A.S. Klovdahl et al; Cases, contexts and care - the importance of grounded network analysis, K. Jinnett. Methodological issues in network recall and agreement: "Sorry, I forgot" - the role of recall error in longitudinal personal network studies, E.R. Wright, B.A. Pescosolido; Patterns in the recall of sexual and drug injection partners, D.D. Brewer et al; Concordance between drug users' and their network members' reported drug use and HIV status - implications to HIV prevention, C. Latkin et al. Risk exposure and social ties: Ethnicity, social networks and HIV risk in older drug users, J.J. Schensul et al; Network ties and disease prevention: Informal social networks and epidemic prevention in a third world context - cholera and HIV/AIDS compared, V. Agadjanian; The differential importance of friend, relative and partner relationships for the mental health of young adults, J. McLaughlin et al; Gender, social support and experimental similarity during chronic stress - the case of family caregivers, J.J. Suitor, K. Pillemer. Social support and health: Exploring the structural contexts of the support process - social networks, social statuses, social support and psychological distress, V.A. Haines et al; Factors related to multiplexity in support networks of persons with severe mental illness, J. Holschuh, S.P. Segal; Drug users' lay consultation processes - symptom identification and management, M. Regen et al; Gender differences in depressive symptoms - insights from a life span perspective on life stages and social networks, H. Akiyama, T. Antonucci.