Fraser
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8774 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fraser |
| SOBRENOME | Fraser |
| ASSINATURA | FRASER |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1018-5865 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 128 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 693 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”
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…
Staying with the Trouble” in Ontopolitical Research on Drugs
Trouble seems to be characteristic of contemporary politics and life. From the environment to the pandemic, crises of political credibility around the world, conflict on social media and the drama of so-called “cancel culture”, avoiding or settling trouble seems more unimaginable than ever. Yet, as the theme of this conference makes clear, trouble is not always negative, especially when posed in verb form. To trouble preconceptions, orthodoxies o…
Remaking the ‘angry Narcanned subject’
Naloxone is a medication used to reverse opioid overdose. Alongside its lifesaving effects, it also has a reputation for producing distress, aggression and occasionally violence upon administration. This article analyses how take-home naloxone (THN) training initiatives address naloxone's reputation for producing aggression and conflict, and how new subject positions emerge in the context of this training. While the role of naloxone in producing …
Who Veridicts Health? Health Professional Discourses on Performance and Image-Enhancing Drugs (Pieds), Health, and Masculinity
This article explores the ways in which Australian health professionals performatively constitute the relationships between performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs), health, and masculinity. It draws on the work of Judith Butler, John Law and Bruno Latour to argue that interviews with health professionals stabilize PIEDs, somewhat paradoxically, as inherently dangerous substances that distort and damage “natural” bodies, and as important med…
We've got a present for you
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…
Masculine enhancement as health or pathology
The consumption of performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) is commonly pathologised in public health discourse as stemming from an unhealthy relationship to masculinity, and is often framed as intrinsically 'risky' and fundamentally at odds with 'good health'. This article examines Australian health promotion materials on PIEDs to analyse their role in shaping notions of good health, normal gender and appropriate self-improvement. To do so,…
Countering 'the moral science of biopolitics
Although new hepatitis C treatments are a vast improvement on older, interferon-based regimens, there are those who have not taken up treatment, as well as those who have begun but not completed treatment. In this article, we analyse 50 interviews conducted for an Australian research project on treatment uptake. We draw on Berlant's (2007, Critical Inquiry, 33) work on 'slow death' to analyse so-called 'non-compliant' cases, that is, those who be…
Improving the effectiveness and inclusiveness of alcohol and other drug outreach models for young people
While outreach is a common modality for delivering alcohol and other drug support services, little is known about its role for young people experiencing difficulties associated with alcohol and other drug consumption. In this article, we conduct a review of international literature on youth alcohol and other drug outreach to identify features of high-quality outreach models and document major themes or issues. We found relatively little research …
Hepatitis C data justice
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…
Optimism and eternal vigilance
The advent of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C medications has reshaped experiences of hepatitis C treatment and cure. Positioned as a treatment revolution, the new medications mean a world without hepatitis C has become imaginable, and this optimism is reflected in Australia's commitment to the WHO's target of 'eliminating' the virus as a public health threat by 2030. Alongside optimism about new treatments, Australia's current National Hepat…
Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment
Until the recent introduction of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications, the only available hepatitis C treatments were lengthy and onerous interferon-based therapies, with relatively weak success rates. While experiences of interferon-based treatment have been well documented, there is a need to better understand how the experiences of the 'old' treatments shape contemporary treatment experiences. This article uses the concept of 'post-crisis…
The trouble with normalisation
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
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…
Proper distance in the age of social distancing
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has played a prominent role in the treatment of hepatitis C. As part of a qualitative study on the accessibility and effectiveness of telehealth for hepatitis C treatment during this period in Australia, this article considers how health-care practitioners and patients experience and manage their proximity to each other in telehealth encounters of care. Comparisons between telehealth and in-person health-c…
Overdoselifesavers.org
Aims Overdoselifesavers.org was created as part of a larger Australian research project investigating impediments to take-home naloxone uptake. The aim of the project was to create a resource to enhance public and professional understandings of take-home naloxone and to counter stigmatising misconceptions about overdose. This article presents the findings of a mixed-method evaluation of Overdoselifesavers.org that assesses its success in achievin…
Understanding preferences for type of take-home naloxone device
Background: Take-home naloxone (THN) is provided to non-medically trained people to reverse potential opioid overdoses. There is an increasing range of effective intramuscular (IM) and intranasal (IN) naloxone devices and this paper explores the types preferred by people who use opioids, using consumer behaviour literature to interpret the findings. Methods: Data derive from two unconnected qualitative studies involving audio-recorded semi-struct…
It's a different way to do medicine’
Exhausted practical sovereignty and lateral agency
Embarrassment, Shame, and Reassurance
Making Australian institutions in newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement
In Australia, the rise of the #MeToo movement coincided with a major public reckoning with sexual and family violence, through two royal commissions. Across #MeToo and the royal commissions, a common picture emerged whereby the mutually reinforcing role of institutions such as the media and law was considered central to the production of problems such as sexual assault. Drawing on insights from feminist science and technology studies on the const…
Echoes and Antibodies
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…
Addiction stigma and the production of impediments to take-home naloxone uptake
Opioid overdose deaths are a major health issue in Australia and around the world. Programmes to provide opioid consumers with 'take-home' naloxone to reverse overdose exist internationally, but uptake by mainstream health services and consumers remains inconsistent. Researchers have identified a range of important educational, training and logistical impediments to take-home naloxone uptake and distribution, yet they have focused less on the soc…
Heavy drinking as phenomenon
Alcohol consumption is a significant public health concern in Australia, with men disproportionately represented in treatment for health issues related to heavy drinking. Despite this, little is known about the experiences of these men or the gender dynamics that may shape heavy drinking. Increasingly, the treatment of alcohol and other drug-related issues, including those related to heavy drinking, is based on a biopsychosocial approach. Within …
Hepatitis C cure as a 'gathering
Since the advent of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatments, widespread enthusiasm about disease elimination has emerged. This article examines experiences of hepatitis C treatment and cure in this period. Mobilising Fraser and Seear's (Making disease, making citizens: The politics of hepatitis C, Ashgate, 2011) approach to hepatitis C as a 'gathering', we analyse cure not as a biomedical phenomenon but as a social and material event. To d…
A highly charged field
Habits
What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is at stake in its ongoing production? Drawing on ethnog
Putting at risk what we know
Framing the mother
Currently in developed nations, childhood obesity is generating widespread concern and prompting social and institutional responses. Obesity is constructed as a broad public health crisis, but individuals are constructed as responsible for their own bodies and body sizes within this crisis. We are particularly interested in two aspects that focus on women as central to this phenomenon; the first is the imputation of maternal responsibility for th…
It's Your Life
Health promotion materials on hepatitis C prevention and safe injecting enjoin injecting drug users to produce ethical selves through relatively rigid social and hygiene-related conduct. This article examines a sample of safe injecting and hepatitis C prevention health promotion materials, and interview data gathered from injecting drug users, to consider the ways in which the notion of individual responsibility functions within them. I argue tha…
The addict as victim
Producing the "Problem" of Addiction in Drug Treatment
In this article, we argue that the "problem" of addiction emerges as an effect of treatment policy and practice as well as a precursor to it. We draw on the work of Marrati to analyze interviews with policy makers and practitioners in Australia. The interviews suggest that the episode-of-care system governing service activity, outcomes, and funding relies on certain notions of addiction and treatment that compel service providers to designate ser…
The Agent Within
Blood and bioidentity
Dazzled by unity? Order and chaos in public discourse on illicit drug use
Between bodies and collectivities
Diffracting addicting binaries
Associated with social and individual harm, loss of control and destructive behaviour, addiction is widely considered to be a major social problem. Most models of addiction, including the influential disease model, rely on the volition/compulsion binary, conceptualising addiction as a disorder of compulsion. In order to interrogate this prevailing view, this article draws on qualitative data from interviews with people who describe themselves as …
Basic care as exceptional care
The discrimination faced by people understood to have alcohol or other drug addictions has been the subject of extensive research, with many studies documenting experiences of stigma within healthcare services. Building on this literature, we examine the role of stigma in shaping the healthcare expectations of people seen as affected by alcohol and other drug addictions. Our analysis draws on recent theorisations of stigma as a process of social …
Take-home naloxone and the politics of care
Take-home naloxone' refers to a life-saving intervention in which a drug (naloxone) is made available to nonmedically trained people for administration to other people experiencing an opioid overdose. In Australia, it has not been taken up as widely as would be expected, given its life-saving potential. We consider the actions of take-home naloxone, focusing on how care relations shape its uses and effects. Mobilising Science and Technology Studi…
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…
Men's Performance and Image-Enhancing Drug Use as Self-Transformation
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates how men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) describe their experiences of embodiment and masculinity, locating that analysis in the context of contemporary ‘makeover culture’ and the imperatives of self-transformation. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews we conducted with 60 men who inject PIEDs in Australia, our analysis suggests …
Missing Masculinities
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…
A 'messenger of sex'? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Health Sociology Review. Renae Fomiatti, J. R. Latham, Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Kate Seear & Campbell Aitken (2019) A ‘messenger of sex’? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting, Health Sociology Review, 28:3, 323-338, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2019.1678398. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Common…
Hepatitis C cure as a 'gathering
Since the advent of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatments, widespread enthusiasm about disease elimination has emerged. This article examines experiences of hepatitis C treatment and cure in this period. Mobilising Fraser and Seear's (Making disease, making citizens: The politics of hepatitis C, Ashgate, 2011) approach to hepatitis C as a 'gathering', we analyse cure not as a biomedical phenomenon but as a social and material event. To d…
Is another relationship possible? Connoisseurship and the doctor-patient relationship for men who consume performance and image-enhancing drugs
Accidental Intimacy
This article widens the debate surrounding supervised injecting facilities (SIFs) by exploring an aspect of SIFs yet to be examined in the scholarly literature: the relationships created between staff and clients within these settings. By analyzing entries made in the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre's (MSIC) client comment books we explore the centrality of emotional connection to clients' experiences of the service. We argue that th…
Living Drugs
Between provisioning and consuming
Contemporary Western societies focus considerable policy and media attention on the ‘epidemic of childhood obesity’. In this paper we examine the mobilisation of notions of responsibility and consumption in these discussions, and consider the implications they have for women as mothers. In particular, we are interested to explore the potential conflicts mothers face as care providers and nurturers when responsible care is framed as withholding or…
"Getting Out in the "Real World
A recent opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald expresses a widely held perception that, among young same-sex attracted men in Australia, "queer" has well and truly supplanted "gay" as the language and lens through which self and practice is generated. In this article, I discuss findings from a qualitative research project that studied notions of community among young gay men, and argue that this assumption should not be taken for g…
A Thousand Contradictory Ways
Neuroscientific accounts of addiction are increasingly influential in health and medical circles. At the same time a diverse, if equally scientifically focused, opposition to addiction neuroscience is emerging. In this struggle over the merits of addiction neuroscience are elements of a uniquely 21st-century public engagement with science. No longer trusted by the public as the unerring source of objective knowledge about the world, science is, a…
Rethinking safety and fidelity
Hepatitis C (HCV) is a disease of the liver with a range of potentially debilitating symptoms, the severity of which differ from person to person. HCV is a major public health challenge. Globally an estimated one in 12 persons is affected by the virus, and substantial new transmissions occur each year. The vast majority of new transmissions occur among people who inject drugs, particularly through practices such as sharing of needles, syringes an…
Serving Communities
The Agent Within
Needle fictions
The term “needle fixation” is increasingly used by researchers and health professionals to explain a range of drug injecting attitudes and practices. This article employs an innovative discourse analysis approach to consider this notion of needle fixation. Foucault's theories of power, knowledge and discourse are taken up in examining a recent literature review of material considered to support the idea of needle fixation, and in conducting a sec…
Hepatitis C, blood and models of the body
Hepatitis C is a major public health challenge, and efforts to reduce the transmission of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs (IDU) have had limited success. From within a harm minimization perspective, this study sought to examine the models of blood and the body used in health promotion materials designed to encourage safer injecting practice, and aspects of the body emphasized in interviews with 32 IDU. Of particular interest were the un…
Blood and bioidentity
It's Your Life
Health promotion materials on hepatitis C prevention and safe injecting enjoin injecting drug users to produce ethical selves through relatively rigid social and hygiene-related conduct. This article examines a sample of safe injecting and hepatitis C prevention health promotion materials, and interview data gathered from injecting drug users, to consider the ways in which the notion of individual responsibility functions within them. I argue tha…
The power of naming
The power of naming: A reply to McBride and Pates." Addiction Research & Theory, 13(4), pp. 403–404
Poetic World-Making
The television programme Queer as Folk depicts both scandalous, indecorous behaviour, and respectable, even conventional, forms of love. It constitutes what Michael Warner, in his influential essay ‘Publics and Counterpublics’, has described as public speech and, at the same time, it sits both inside and outside his category of counterpublic speech. As such, it operates as a boundary case through which the distinction between public and counterpu…
Spoiled identity’ in hepatitis C infection
Hepatitis C is a potentially debilitating disease of the liver, the impact of and prognosis for which vary significantly from person to person. Although the health consequences of contracting hepatitis C are extremely diverse, becoming infected with the disease is sometimes experienced in terms of an absolute shift from healthy to sick, clean to contaminated, good to bad. In this paper, we use interview material derived from a study on hepatitis …
The chronotope of the queue
Speaking Addictions
Press coverage of addiction tends to be prolific if not always accurate or considered. This article examines the ways in which methadone treatment is reported in three respected daily newspapers, the New York Times, the Times (London) and the Sydney Morning Herald. To conduct this analysis I focus on the role of metaphor, asking what impact the use of metaphor–-both to figure methadone and to mobilize it as a figure for other phenomena–-has in th…
Putting at risk what we know
Making Blood Flow
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…
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
Trauma, damage and pleasure
Hooked on the Abstract
Dazzled by unity? Order and chaos in public discourse on illicit drug use
"Getting Out in the "Real World
A recent opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald expresses a widely held perception that, among young same-sex attracted men in Australia, "queer" has well and truly supplanted "gay" as the language and lens through which self and practice is generated. In this article, I discuss findings from a qualitative research project that studied notions of community among young gay men, and argue that this assumption should not be taken for g…
Towards a Global Approach’–An overview of Harm Reduction 2008
Living Drugs
Rationalities and Non-rationalities in Clinical Encounters
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…
Hepatitis C and the limits of medicalisation and biological citizenship for people who inject drugs
People who inject drugs access information about hepatitis C in a range of ways. For some, diagnosis is a key point at which information is encountered. This information is considered in public health circles to be important for initiating or enhancing safe injecting practice and self-care. Yet, not all of those diagnosed with hepatitis C continue to stay informed about the disease or about their health in general, preferring to postpone engageme…
Healthy living and citizenship
Ben Cousins and the ‘double life’
Contemporary neo-liberal public health discourse is increasingly drawn to the language of ‘addiction’. Disease models of addiction are mobilised to account for an expanding array of problematised activities, from the familiar smoking and drinking to newer candidates, such as overeating and gambling. Most models of addiction, including disease models, are underpinned by the idea that, unlike proper citizens of neo-liberal democracies, ‘addicts’ la…
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