Philippe Bourgois, who has spent his career studying some of America’s roughest neighborhoods and subcultures, got an unusually harsh welcome to his new hometown: Last May, during a trip to North ...

As the sun went down one evening over San Francisco’s shipyards, the anthropologist Philippe Bourgois came across a man in a drug-induced seizure under the intersection of two freeways. Bourgois was ...

In this gritty ethnography exploring the world of San Francisco's homeless heroin addicts, Bourgois, anthropology and community medicine professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Schonberg, a ...

William Julius Wilson describes this book as "A riveting novel of the daily struggles for survival of homeless people with a physical and emotional addiction to heroin". Disclaimer: AAAS and ...