(Re)politicizing harm reduction: Poststructuralist thinking to challenge the medicalization of harms among people who use drugs
Poststructuralism, with its critical interpretations of knowledge, discourse, truth, and power, offers a set of compelling analytic tools for disentangling and deconstructing the ways in which health-related phenomena exist and are understood. This paper adopts a poststructuralist stance to outline...
Main Author: | Trevor Goodyear |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Ottawa
2021-01-01
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Series: | Aporia |
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Online Access: | https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/aporia/article/view/5272 |
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