Cultural Alchemy and Supervised Injection
Anthropological Activism and Application
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14834713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Small (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 26-31 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/0888-4552-38.2.26 |
| OpenAlex | W2316016368 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Many barriers to health care interventions are principally cultural rather than technical. North America's first and only supervised injection facility, known as Insite, where injection drug users legally inject illicit drugs within a government funded and sanctioned setting, illustrates the cultural roots of health care. Its establishment is a story of intentional cultural change that required the identification of implicit and explicit values about addiction as part of an anthropological action plan. The plan involved changing narratives so that supervised injection could become culturally possible. This essay reviews how an action-based strategy, rooted in practiced anthropology, was deployed to overcome narrative obstacles to create and protect a medically defensible but culturally controversial program located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Action plan · Cultural anthropology · Culturally appropriate · Drug injection · Injection drug use · Management · Narrative · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropology · History · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Medicine · Nursing · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Gerontology
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |