Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vitellone, Nicole

Titel

Social Science of the Syringe: A Sociology of Injecting Drug Use

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• iHarm Reduction frames the syringe as a risk to one's health. But is it? In this provocative book Vitellone brings a new approach to bear on the history of the troubling and transformative object that is the syringe. Through an in depth study of the policy and practice of Needle Exchange, Social Science of the Syringe situates the syringe at the centre of empirical inquiry and theoretical analysis as Vitellone questions accounts of the syringe as a device that facilitates social action between humans. Complicating the relationship between human and object - the injecting drug user and the syringe - Social Science of the Syringe considers what happens if one views the object as an intra-active part of the sociality that constitutes injecting practices. Drawing on the methodologies of social anthropology, Actor-Network-Theory, Deleuze's empiricism and new feminist materialism, this timely volume sheds new light on the causes and effects of injecting behaviour and the problem of syringe sharing. In so doing, it provides a more robust empirical framework to evaluate the motivations of injecting drug use and consequences of Harm Reduction 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 drug policy.