Responding to vulnerability
The case of injection drug use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17814418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Ben‐ishai (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 39-63 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1937-4577 • E-ISSN: 1937-4585 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ijfab.5.2.39 |
| OpenAlex | W1970416651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article examines the case of Insite, North America’s only supervised injection facility, to consider the relationship between dependence, relational autonomy, and vulnerability. At state-funded Insite, users inject illicit drugs under medical supervision. By conceiving of Insite as a health-care facility and addiction as disease, advocates evoke a shared sense of vulnerability among the nonusing public and users, garnering considerable support for the site. Through Insite, the state responds to vulnerability by reshaping the meaning of dependence and conferring recognition upon users, in turn fostering users’ autonomy. However, the medicalized discourse surrounding Insite may obscure drug users’ vulnerabilities emerging not from “disease,” but from stigma and criminalization. Vulnerability analysis must emphasize not merely a naturalized conception of vulnerability, but the socially constructed nature of human beings’ experiences of vulnerability
Addiction · Autonomy · Computer security · Criminalization · Criminology · Internet privacy · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Computer Science · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology
The struggle for recognition
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism
Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition, and Justice
Relational Autonomy, Liberal Individualism, and the Social Constitution of Selves
The vulnerable subject
Relational Autonomy, Normative Authority and Perfectionism
Autonomy and Oppressive Socialization
Interpretation and Method
Feminist Grounded Theory
Harm reduction headway and continuing resistance
The establishment of North America's first state sanctioned supervised injection facility
Public health or human rights
Rethinking Relational Autonomy
Harm Reduction
Kant’s Children
Sexual Politics and Ascriptive Autonomy
Opiate addiction
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |