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Social Science of the Syringe - A Sociology of Injecting Drug Use (Paperback)
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Social Science of the Syringe - A Sociology of Injecting Drug Use (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
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This book addresses the history of harm reduction. It evaluates the
consequences and constraints, stakes and costs of the policy of
needle exchange for the purposes of harm prevention and health
research. Vitellone situates the syringe at the centre of empirical
research and theoretical analysis, challenging existing accounts of
drug injecting which treat the syringe as a dead device that simply
facilitates social action between humans. Instead, this book
complicates the relationship between human and object - injecting
drug user and syringe - to ask what happens if we see the object as
an intra-active part of the sociality that constitutes injecting
practices. And what kinds of methods are required to generate a
social science of the syringe that is able to measure injecting
sociality? Social Science of the Syringe develops material
methodologies and epistemologies of injecting drug use to enact the
syringe as an object of intellectual inquiry. It draws on the
methodologies of social anthropology, Actor-Network-Theory,
Deleuze's empiricism and new feminist materialism to move towards
materially-engaged knowledge production. This interdisciplinary
approach improves understandings of the causes and effects of
injecting behaviour and the problem of needle sharing, as well as
providing a more robust empirical framework to evaluate the
motivations and consequences of drug use and drug policy. This book
will appeal to researchers and students interested in the sociology
of health and illness, STS, Actor-Network Theory, empirical
sociology, medical anthropology, social and cultural anthropology,
addiction theory and harm reduction.
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