Kylie Valentine
Biographic Data
| ID | 257955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kylie Valentine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kylie |
| FAMILY NAME | Valentine |
| SIGNATURE | VALENTINE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4785-484X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials: Ensuring justice and data equity
This case study considers LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials as an issue of justice and data equity in research ethics. Although representation of LGBTQ+ people in clinical trials varies depending on the type of cancer, routine data collection of gender and sexual orientation in clinical trials is inconsistent, leading to underrepresentation in routine reporting. Improving LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials ensures more et…
Staying with the Sign
Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law
Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment for the blood-borne virus hepatitis C has shifted conceptions of the disease from a chronic infection – and, in some legal contexts, a “disability” – towards a non-permanent impairment capable of “cure”. The shift in treatment has also led to a shift in law. This paper explores the shift in Australian social security and migration judgments by drawing from performance studies research on disability and reco…
Activity‐Based Funding in Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services: Clinical Staff Perspectives and Practice Implications
Translating epigenetics into antenatal care in Australia: Communicating risk and intergenerational health in practice
The scientific field of epigenetics – and its social and ethical repercussions – has been met with a mixture of cautious optimism and scepticism from social scientists. While acknowledging the possibilities of contributing to a more biosocial account of health, critical scholars are concerned about how this knowledge could be used to intensify risk narratives for certain groups, particularly pregnant people. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interv…
Active public spaces can protect against multiple dimensions of loneliness: Qualitative evidence from an Australian sample in the Covid-19 pandemic
Among many long-term policy questions raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, renewed energy has been given to arguments about the importance of built environments to wellbeing. Restricting access to space outside the home helped to newly expose the relational value of public spaces, including mundane commercial spaces. Drawing on qualitative evidence from mapping interviews with 46 Australians during the period of restrictions, we explore the ways that…
Regulating vulnerability: Policy approaches for preventing violence and abuse of people with disability in Australian service provision settings
This article analyses policy frameworks designed to protect people with disability from harm in service provision settings and respond to their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with a focus on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).The creation of a new disability services market has facilitated greater choice and empowerment for NDIS participants, but has also exposed them to new risks and vulnerabil…
We've got a present for you: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift
With the advent of highly effective and tolerable direct-acting antiviral treatments for hepatitis C, widespread optimism for and investment in the project of disease elimination now informs the public health response. In Australia, the Commonwealth government has invested heavily in elimination by universally subsidising treatment, promising access for all. Reflecting concerns that commonly accompany ambitious public health projects, cost for go…
Troubling complaint: Addressing hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination through complaint mechanisms
The need to grapple with hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination in Australian health-care settings has been recognised in public policy, and work is underway to address it. But how likely are people to raise a complaint when they experience stigma or discrimination? And how effective and accessible are complaints mechanisms? Given complaint procedures are considered important parts of the delivery of safe and ethical health care, these are…
Hepatitis C data justice: The implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C
The World Health Organization’s goal of achieving hepatitis C elimination by 2030 is inspiring the use of novel methods to find, diagnose and treat people living with the virus. Globally, rates of hepatitis C treatment uptake have declined. Data-driven public health approaches, including case finding, notification and contact tracing, are being developed and implemented to reach the elimination goal. Drawing on interviews with policymakers, lawye…
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B
In Australia, the response to HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B has largely been through the constructed category of 'blood borne viruses' which treats these viruses as an interconnected set of conditions with respect to their mode of transmission. In this paper, we explore how people understand their viral infection, and compare the logics underpinning these different understandings. In-depth interviews were conducted with 61 participants who wer…
I’m not hep C free’: Afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure
Since the advent of more effective, new-generation treatment for hepatitis C, immense resources have been devoted to delivering cure to as many people with the virus as possible. The scale-up of treatment aims to prevent liver disease, liver cancer and onward transmission of hepatitis C, but social research shows that people also approach treatment with its social promises in mind, including the hope that it might reduce or eradicate stigma from …
Prioritising Children and Young People with Disability in Research About Domestic and Family Violence: Methodological, Ethical and Pragmatic Reflections
Children and young people with disability experiencing domestic and family violence hold an expert and unique vantage point on what happens to them. Amplifying their priorities for directing policy and organisational change requires more of researchers in terms of methods, but also more flexibility in how projects are funded to enable creativity and innovation. We call for collective attention to frameworks for supported decision-making and child…
Child Sexual Abuse, Alcohol and Other Drug use and the Criminal Justice System: The Meanings of Trauma in Survivor Narratives for a National Royal Commission
Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and lifelong effects including higher risks of alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system. The concept of trauma to describe adverse experiences and later behaviours provides potential to reshape prevention and responses for victims. We draw on survivor accounts to a national enquiry, the Australian Royal Commission into Instit…
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses
In recognition of the broader relational aspects of viral infections, family support is considered important when someone is diagnosed with a blood-borne virus (BBV), such as HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV). However, families' own support needs are often not a priority in service provision within the BBV sector. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with 20 key informants working in various professional capacities in hea…
The trouble with normalisation: Transformations to hepatitis C health care and stigma in an era of viral elimination
Modern health-care systems have customarily approached hepatitis C in ways that resemble the public health approach to HIV/AIDS known as 'HIV exceptionalism'. HIV exceptionalism describes the unusual emphasis on privacy, confidentiality and consent in approaches to HIV and was partly developed to address HIV/AIDS-related stigma. In the case of hepatitis C, exceptionalist approaches have included diagnosis and treatment by specialist physicians an…
Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post-hepatitis C futures
In recent years, highly tolerable and effective drugs have emerged promising a radical new 'post-hepatitis C' world. Optimism about medical cure potentially overlooks discrimination and stigma associated with hepatitis C and injecting drug use. Legal frameworks are especially relevant to hepatitis futures, since the law has the potential to reinforce or alleviate stigma and discrimination. This article explores how hepatitis C figures in Australi…
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: Exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics
A virus has a social history. In the case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV, this history is one involving stigma and discrimination, advocacy and activism, and recent dramatic improvements in treatment. These social histories influence the experience of people who live with the viruses, and those who work with them. One aspect of this is the impact of social changes on the biographical disruption and integration brought about by illness. He…
Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject
New drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have emerged. There is great optimism within medicine about the transformative potential of cure, but this overlooks the entrenched discrimination and stigma associated with both hepatitis C and injecting drug use and the role of law in re/producing it. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders such as policymakers, lawyers, and representatives from peer organisations (N = 30), Latour’s (2013) wo…
Fault/Lines: New Directions in Critical Drug Scholarship Inspired by the Work of David Moore and Colleagues
Understanding 'risk' in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of 'difference
Risk' has long been at the centre of expert and popular perceptions of transmissible and stigmatised blood-borne viral infections, such as HIV and viral hepatitis. There is a substantial body of research on transmission risk among couples with mixed viral infection status (serodiscordance). But we know very little about how families affected by HIV and viral hepatitis engage with understandings of infectiousness and how these shape family relatio…
The significance of technology as both a resource in enhancing safety, and a means of perpetrating violence: The implications for policy and practice
There is evidence that technological devices such as personal safety alarms and security cameras can be effective in contributing to an increased sense of safety for victims of domestic and family violence, when they are provided as part of a broader programme of support. This article reports on findings from a mixed methods evaluation of a programme trialled in Queensland, Australia. The programme was funded by the Commonwealth Department of Soc…
Beyond a ‘post-cure’ world: Sketches for a new futurology of hepatitis C
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’: Journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their childhoods. This article draws on biographical na…
Disability and family violence prevention: A case study on participation in evidence making
Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses to disabled women and children experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). Service provision in these sectors is often rationed due to resource constraints, and increasingly marketised, and disabled people often do not have their needs met. Their opportunities for participation in policy and practice are also constrained. Aims and objectives: Our…
Citizenship, Identity, Blood Donation
Blood donation is broadly understood to be a public and altruistic act. However, new theories of citizenship and subjectivity suggest that the individual and embodied qualities of blood also need to be taken into account when examining donation. This article examines the relationship between public and private elements of blood donation. Donating blood is not an entirely public act, and does not provide an entirely impersonal resource. The embodi…
A consideration of medicalisation: Choice, engagement and other responsibilities of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder
Evidence, values and drug treatment policy
Despite the controversial nature of illicit drug treatment, there is a relative lack of research on policy formation in this area. This paper draws on qualitative interviews with service providers and analysis of policy documents, conducted for an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council funded project entitled `Comparing the role of takeaways in methadone maintenance treatment in New South Wales and Victoria', to examine the forma…
Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Making Up People
This ar ticle considers the operations of methadone maintenance treatment through the use of concepts proposed by actor-network theor y and historical ontology. The former provokes a concern with the co-constitution of treatment regimes by various actors, including non-human actants.The latter provokes a concern with the creation of new identities. Analysis of methadone often examines treatment as a nether world, and clients as neither addicted n…
Emergent publics of alcohol and other drug policymaking
Alcohol and other drug (AOD) policy is developed within complex networks of social, economic, and political forces. One of the key ideas informing this development is that of the ‘public’ of AOD problems and policy solutions. To date, however, little scholarly attention has been paid to notions of the public in AOD policymaking. Precisely how are publics articulated by those tasked with policy development and implementation? In this article, we e…
Missing Masculinities: Gendering Practices in Australian Alcohol Research and Policy
The issue of ‘alcohol-fuelled violence’ has been the subject of intense policy debate in Australia. While this debate is warranted, its contours and content have been informed and shaped by a surprisingly narrow range of research resources. Narrow research engagements of this kind warrant scrutiny because they can exclude from consideration crucial issues. In this article we identify one such issue, that of gender. Following a review of the Austr…
Living Drugs
Complex Needs and Wicked Problems: How Social Disadvantage Became Multiple
This article traces changes in the descriptions of entrenched social disadvantage, and changes in the way that social description is conceptualised and measured. The article is also an analysis of the importance of categories and categorisation to social policy research; an importance which is recognised relatively rarely. Its focus is on the growing importance of multiplicity as a mode for measuring and conceptualising disadvantage. It argues th…
Drugs, Brains and Other Subalterns: Public Debate and the New Materialist Politics of Addiction
Over the last few decades feminists, science and technology studies scholars and others have grappled with how to take materiality into account in understanding social practices, subjectivity and events. One key area for these debates has been drug use and addiction. At the same time, neuroscientific accounts of drug use and addiction have also arisen. This development has attracted criticism as simplistically reinstating material determinism. In…
Adapting Service Delivery during Covid-19: Experiences of Domestic Violence Practitioners
COVID-19 rapidly altered patterns of domestic and family violence, increasing the complexity of women’s needs, and presenting new barriers to service use. This article examines service responses in Australia, exploring practitioners' accounts of adapting service delivery models in the early months of the pandemic. Data from a qualitatively enriched online survey of practitioners (n = 100) show the ways services rapidly shifted to engage with clie…
The embodied relationality of blood-borne viruses: How families matter in the context of a stigmatised viral infection
Information Provision to Grandparent Kinship Carers: Responding to Their Unique Needs
Grandparent kinship care is a growing policy concern in Australia. Availability of appropriate, timely, and up-to-date information on payments and allowances, support services, and children's needs, is an important factor in determining whether grandparent carers, and the children in their care, receive the support they need. While it is known that custodial grandparents in Australia have trouble gaining access to information and support, relativ…
Understanding 'risk' in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of 'difference
Risk' has long been at the centre of expert and popular perceptions of transmissible and stigmatised blood-borne viral infections, such as HIV and viral hepatitis. There is a substantial body of research on transmission risk among couples with mixed viral infection status (serodiscordance). But we know very little about how families affected by HIV and viral hepatitis engage with understandings of infectiousness and how these shape family relatio…
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood-borne virus
Contemporary sociological work has emphasised that family is not static, but actively shaped by ideas of who and what makes family. Disclosure of an illness, including diagnosis of stigmatised infections such as HIV, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus, can change the dynamics of family relationships. This paper draws on 61 qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted between 2017 and 2019 with people in Australia with one or more of thes…
Making Blood Flow: Materializing Blood in Body Modification and Blood-borne Virus Prevention
This article combines in-depth interviews and Karen Barad's work on materiality to think about the ways in which the materiality of blood might be understood in relation to sociality and blood-borne virus prevention among BDSM (bondage and domination, dominance and submission and sadomasochism) body modification practitioners in Sydney, Australia. In doing so, it confronts questions of how the materiality of blood can be theorized in ways that ne…
Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post-hepatitis C futures
In recent years, highly tolerable and effective drugs have emerged promising a radical new 'post-hepatitis C' world. Optimism about medical cure potentially overlooks discrimination and stigma associated with hepatitis C and injecting drug use. Legal frameworks are especially relevant to hepatitis futures, since the law has the potential to reinforce or alleviate stigma and discrimination. This article explores how hepatitis C figures in Australi…
Covid‐19 lockdowns, intimate partner violence and coercive control
2020 was a year like no other, with the COVID‐19 virus upending life as we know it. When governments around the world imposed lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID‐19, advocates in the domestic and family violence (DFV) sector recognised that these measures were likely to result in increases in violence against women, particularly intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV can take many forms, including physical, emotional, psychological, finan…
Experience as Evidence: The Prospects for Biographical Narratives in Drug Policy
Programs and policies are increasingly framed by the logics of “evidence-based policy,” a term subject to critical scrutiny and change after it emerged as an explicit valuing of specific types of quantitative data as objective, and a devaluing of most types of qualitative data. The transfer of “evidence-based” approaches to drug policy was mobilized by a distrust of people who use drugs, and of people who work with them. This distrust remains imp…
The trouble with normalisation: Transformations to hepatitis C health care and stigma in an era of viral elimination
Modern health-care systems have customarily approached hepatitis C in ways that resemble the public health approach to HIV/AIDS known as 'HIV exceptionalism'. HIV exceptionalism describes the unusual emphasis on privacy, confidentiality and consent in approaches to HIV and was partly developed to address HIV/AIDS-related stigma. In the case of hepatitis C, exceptionalist approaches have included diagnosis and treatment by specialist physicians an…
How early is early intervention and who should get it? Contested meanings in determining thresholds for intervention
Troubling complaint: Addressing hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination through complaint mechanisms
The need to grapple with hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination in Australian health-care settings has been recognised in public policy, and work is underway to address it. But how likely are people to raise a complaint when they experience stigma or discrimination? And how effective and accessible are complaints mechanisms? Given complaint procedures are considered important parts of the delivery of safe and ethical health care, these are…
Prioritising Children and Young People with Disability in Research About Domestic and Family Violence: Methodological, Ethical and Pragmatic Reflections
Children and young people with disability experiencing domestic and family violence hold an expert and unique vantage point on what happens to them. Amplifying their priorities for directing policy and organisational change requires more of researchers in terms of methods, but also more flexibility in how projects are funded to enable creativity and innovation. We call for collective attention to frameworks for supported decision-making and child…
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: Exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics
A virus has a social history. In the case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV, this history is one involving stigma and discrimination, advocacy and activism, and recent dramatic improvements in treatment. These social histories influence the experience of people who live with the viruses, and those who work with them. One aspect of this is the impact of social changes on the biographical disruption and integration brought about by illness. He…
Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject
New drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have emerged. There is great optimism within medicine about the transformative potential of cure, but this overlooks the entrenched discrimination and stigma associated with both hepatitis C and injecting drug use and the role of law in re/producing it. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders such as policymakers, lawyers, and representatives from peer organisations (N = 30), Latour’s (2013) wo…
Rationalities and Non-rationalities in Clinical Encounters: Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Rationality is central to modern biomedicine: not only are doctors expected to diagnose and prescribe rationally according to evidence-based guidelines, but patients are increasingly expected to behave in rational ways in their encounters with medical practitioners. Patients are offered guidance on how to ask rational questions of their doctors, and how to make reasoned decisions about what treatment options to pursue. Here, we examine the operat…
Mad and Modern: A Reading of Emily Holmes Coleman and Antonia White
This article raises questions about the tools available to feminist critics interested in both the politics of mental distress and the particularity of texts, using Virginia Woolf as a preliminary example. Reading two little discussed modernist novels, Emily Holmes Coleman’s The Shutter of Snow (1930) and Antonia White’s Beyond the Glass (1955), this essay establishes a model for analysis that is attentive to the particularities of both mental di…
Citizenship, Identity, Blood Donation
Blood donation is broadly understood to be a public and altruistic act. However, new theories of citizenship and subjectivity suggest that the individual and embodied qualities of blood also need to be taken into account when examining donation. This article examines the relationship between public and private elements of blood donation. Donating blood is not an entirely public act, and does not provide an entirely impersonal resource. The embodi…
Making Blood Flow: Materializing Blood in Body Modification and Blood-borne Virus Prevention
This article combines in-depth interviews and Karen Barad's work on materiality to think about the ways in which the materiality of blood might be understood in relation to sociality and blood-borne virus prevention among BDSM (bondage and domination, dominance and submission and sadomasochism) body modification practitioners in Sydney, Australia. In doing so, it confronts questions of how the materiality of blood can be theorized in ways that ne…
Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Making Up People
This ar ticle considers the operations of methadone maintenance treatment through the use of concepts proposed by actor-network theor y and historical ontology. The former provokes a concern with the co-constitution of treatment regimes by various actors, including non-human actants.The latter provokes a concern with the creation of new identities. Analysis of methadone often examines treatment as a nether world, and clients as neither addicted n…
Substance and Substitution
Located between three powerful phenomena, public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers. This
Substance and Substitution: Methadone Subjects in Liberal Societies
Trauma, damage and pleasure: Rethinking problematic drug use
Living Drugs
Rationalities and Non-rationalities in Clinical Encounters: Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Rationality is central to modern biomedicine: not only are doctors expected to diagnose and prescribe rationally according to evidence-based guidelines, but patients are increasingly expected to behave in rational ways in their encounters with medical practitioners. Patients are offered guidance on how to ask rational questions of their doctors, and how to make reasoned decisions about what treatment options to pursue. Here, we examine the operat…
Evidence, values and drug treatment policy
Despite the controversial nature of illicit drug treatment, there is a relative lack of research on policy formation in this area. This paper draws on qualitative interviews with service providers and analysis of policy documents, conducted for an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council funded project entitled `Comparing the role of takeaways in methadone maintenance treatment in New South Wales and Victoria', to examine the forma…
A consideration of medicalisation: Choice, engagement and other responsibilities of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder
Accounting for Agency
Children are increasingly described as agents and agency is important to arguments for children’s rights and participation. Yet agency is rarely defined or theorised in childhood studies. This article reviews common uses and meanings of agency and argues that critical, social conceptualisations have yet to be extensively taken up in childhood studies but offer much to the field. Based on the work of Giddens, his critics and feminist theory, I pro…
Response to Chandler et al., Substance, structure and stigma: Parents in the UK accounting for opioid substitution therapy during the antenatal and postnatal periods
Examining structural violence in opioid pharmacotherapy treatment in Australia: Sweating the “small stuff” in a liberal paradise
Information Provision to Grandparent Kinship Carers: Responding to Their Unique Needs
Grandparent kinship care is a growing policy concern in Australia. Availability of appropriate, timely, and up-to-date information on payments and allowances, support services, and children's needs, is an important factor in determining whether grandparent carers, and the children in their care, receive the support they need. While it is known that custodial grandparents in Australia have trouble gaining access to information and support, relativ…
Complex Needs and Wicked Problems: How Social Disadvantage Became Multiple
This article traces changes in the descriptions of entrenched social disadvantage, and changes in the way that social description is conceptualised and measured. The article is also an analysis of the importance of categories and categorisation to social policy research; an importance which is recognised relatively rarely. Its focus is on the growing importance of multiplicity as a mode for measuring and conceptualising disadvantage. It argues th…
How early is early intervention and who should get it? Contested meanings in determining thresholds for intervention
Responses to family and domestic violence: Supporting women
At a time when domestic and family violence (DFV) is being cast as a national emergency, comparable to terrorism, it is timely to review the relationship between feminist advocacy and state-led responses. The principles of long-standing feminist interventions into DFV, which privilege victims’ accounts of their experience, are at risk of being sidelined in the contemporary emphasis on evidence-based policy and atheoretical approaches. However, pr…
Emergent publics of alcohol and other drug policymaking
Alcohol and other drug (AOD) policy is developed within complex networks of social, economic, and political forces. One of the key ideas informing this development is that of the ‘public’ of AOD problems and policy solutions. To date, however, little scholarly attention has been paid to notions of the public in AOD policymaking. Precisely how are publics articulated by those tasked with policy development and implementation? In this article, we e…
Marketisation in Nordic eldercare: A research report on legislation, oversight, extent and consequences
Missing Masculinities: Gendering Practices in Australian Alcohol Research and Policy
The issue of ‘alcohol-fuelled violence’ has been the subject of intense policy debate in Australia. While this debate is warranted, its contours and content have been informed and shaped by a surprisingly narrow range of research resources. Narrow research engagements of this kind warrant scrutiny because they can exclude from consideration crucial issues. In this article we identify one such issue, that of gender. Following a review of the Austr…
Hidden carers? A scoping review of the needs of carers of people with HIV in the contemporary treatment era
The role of carers in supporting people with HIV is largely hidden in Western countries in the contemporary era of antiretroviral treatments. Little is known about their needs. A scoping review was undertaken to describe the research available on the needs of this group and identify gaps in existing knowledge. Findings reveal that carers of people with HIV have similar needs to other carers but are currently mostly invisible to support services. …
Drugs, Brains and Other Subalterns: Public Debate and the New Materialist Politics of Addiction
Over the last few decades feminists, science and technology studies scholars and others have grappled with how to take materiality into account in understanding social practices, subjectivity and events. One key area for these debates has been drug use and addiction. At the same time, neuroscientific accounts of drug use and addiction have also arisen. This development has attracted criticism as simplistically reinstating material determinism. In…
A more accurate understanding of drug use”: A critical analysis of wastewater analysis technology for drug policy
The idea of identifying and monitoring urinary excretion of illicit drugs and their metabolites in wastewater has been seen by governments and international organisations as 'promising'. It is claimed that such approaches will enable governments to effectively direct resources to priority areas, monitor the progress of demand and supply reduction strategies, as well as identify emerging trends. Drawing on poststructural approaches to policy analy…
Good enough’ parenting: Negotiating standards and stigma
Psychology (36 works) · Political science (35 works) · Sociology (35 works) · Medicine (33 works) · Law (22 works) · Psychiatry (19 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Public relations (13 works)