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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Gender Specific Studies | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Cultural Studies | Other Studies in Human Society | History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences | Sociology | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology | Gender Specific Studies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Gender Aspects of Education | Social Structure and Health | Work and Institutional Development not elsewhere classified | Men’s health | Studies in human society |
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Nicotine control: E-cigarettes, smoking and addiction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2012.01.006
Abstract: Over the past year or so, electronic cigarettes, more commonly known as 'e-cigarettes', have achieved widespread visibility and growing popularity. These products, which deliver nicotine via an inhaled mist, have caused no small amount of controversy in public health circles, and their rise has been accompanied by energetic debate about their potential harms and benefits. Interspersed with an analysis of current media coverage on e-cigarettes and the response of mainstream tobacco control and public health to these devices, this article examines the emergence of nicotine as both as an 'addiction' and a treatment for addiction. We argue that by delivering nicotine in way that resembles the visual spectacle and bodily pleasures of smoking, but without the harms of combustible tobacco, e-cigarettes highlight the complex status of nicotine as both a poison and remedy in contemporary public health and tobacco control. In consequence, e-cigarettes jeopardize the carefully drawn distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' forms of nicotine.
Healthy adults and maternal bodies: Reformulations of gender in Australian alcohol guidelines
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
All gates lead to smoking: The ‘gateway theory’, e-cigarettes and the remaking of nicotine
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2014.08.016
Abstract: The idea that drug use in 'softer' forms leads to 'harder' drug use lies at the heart of the gateway theory, one of the most influential models of drug use of the twentieth century. Although hotly contested, the notion of the 'gateway drug' continues to rear its head in discussions of drug use--most recently in the context of electronic cigarettes. Based on a critical reading of a range of texts, including scholarly literature and media reports, we explore the history and gestation of the gateway theory, highlighting the ways in which intersections between academic, media and popular accounts actively produced the concept. Arguing that the theory has been critical in maintaining the distinction between 'soft' and 'hard' drugs, we turn to its distinctive iteration in the context of debates about e-cigarettes. We show that the notion of the 'gateway' has been transformed from a descriptive to a predictive model, one in which nicotine is constituted as simultaneously 'soft' and 'hard'--as both relatively innocuous and incontrovertibly harmful.
Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL Washington, DC, USA: U.S. Department
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2018
DOI: 10.1111/DAR.12578
Adventures of the Addicted Brain
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1999
Internet addiction? Temporality and life online in the networked society
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-04-2015
Abstract: Recent literature has explored the processes of global change associated with the social relations, technologies, and economies of time, as well as the move from clock time to event time and network time. Others have focused on the ‘presence bleed’ evident in technologically-mediated work. A harried pace of life is exacerbated in what Judy Wajcman calls an ‘acceleration society'. She points to how technologies can change the nature of current practices as well as create new ones. This article critically examines discourses of ‘internet addiction’, by considering the phenomenon of internet use in the context of societal shifts in temporal relations. Drawing on a recent qualitative study of four adult heavy internet users, the analysis employs Bourdieu’s theory of practice and notions of flow to explain the understandings and performance of temporality in the lives of so-called ‘internet addicts’. The data illustrate complex multiple realities and multifaceted behaviours that comprise current social use of the internet and subsequent ‘digital pathologies’. The article argues that the in idual pathology model of internet addiction is not useful given the dramatic changes in temporality produced by digital technology. It suggests that the assumptions about the correct use of time embedded in notions of addiction reproduce binary distinctions between the real and the virtual, production and consumption and work and play which no longer reflect social practice. While it is certainly the case that users can be troubled by their inability to control their online activities, these experiences need to be understood within the specific social contexts of users’ lives rather than being interpreted through a universal and medicalised model of addiction.
Purposeful play: exploring a bar-based, anti-tobacco intervention for young adults
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-06-2021
Female vulnerability and susceptible brains: Gendered discourses of addiction
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1086/SHAD31010126
Enacting alcohol realities: gendering practices in Australian studies on ‘alcohol‐related presentations’ to emergency departments
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-09-2019
Abstract: 'Alcohol-fuelled violence' and its prevention has been the subject of recent intense policy debate in Australia, with the content of this debate informed by a surprisingly narrow range of research resources. In particular, given the well-established relationship between masculinities and violence, the meagre attention paid to the role of gender in alcohol research and policy recommendations stands out as a critical issue. In this article, which draws on recent work in feminist science studies and science and technology studies, we focus on the treatment of gender, alcohol and violence in Australian research on 'alcohol-related presentations' to emergency departments (EDs), analysing this type of research because of its prominence in policy debates. We focus on four types of 'gendering practice' through which research genders 'alcohol-related presentations' to EDs: omitting gender from consideration, ignoring clearly gendered data when making gender-neutral policy recommendations, methodologically designing out gender and addressing gender in terms of risk and vulnerability. We argue that ED research practices and their policy recommendations reproduce normative understandings of alcohol's effects and of the operations of gender in social arrangements, thereby contributing to the 'evidence base' supporting unfair policy responses.
Categorising methadone: Addiction and analgesia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2013.05.007
Abstract: While methadone was first developed as an analgesic, and used for this purpose before it was adopted as a therapy for drug dependence, it is this latter use which has saturated its identity. Most of the literature and commentary on methadone discusses it in the context of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). But one of the effects of the liberalization of opiate prescription for chronic pain which took place in the 1990s was the re-emergence of methadone as a painkiller. This article examines the relationship between methadone the painkiller and methadone the addiction treatment as it is constituted in recent medical research literature and treatment guidelines. It highlights the way medical discourse separates methadone into two substances with different effects depending on the problem that is being treated. Central to this separation is the classification of patients into addicts and non-addicts and pain sufferers and non-pain sufferers. The article argues that despite this work of making and maintaining distinctions, the similarities in the way methadone is used and acts in these different medical contexts complicates these categories. The difficulties of keeping the 'two methadones' separate becomes most apparent in cases of MMT patients also being treated for chronic pain.
Papular acantholytic dyskeratosis presenting as genital warts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2007
DOI: 10.1258/095646207782716938
Abstract: A 24-year-old woman presented with genital warts which did not respond to treatment. Biopsy confirmed changes in keeping with a diagnosis of Darier's disease. The patient, however, had no other manifestations of Darier's disease, i.e. family history of skin disease, nail changes or other skin site involvement. We propose that this patient has a form of Darier's disease called genital papular acantholytic dyskeratosis.
Gender and Feminism in the Social Sciences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Technological change and sexual disorder
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-03-2016
DOI: 10.1111/ADD.13355
Making gender along the way: women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-12-2020
The hammer and the nail: The triple lock of methods, realities and institutional contexts in Australian research on nightlife violence
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2022.103898
Abstract: There is considerable public and policy debate in Australia about measures to reduce violence associated with alcohol and young people in the night-time economy. Though overrepresented in violence, the role of men and masculinities is rarely explicitly addressed in policy responses to such violence, which rest on a narrow range of mainly quantitative research and recommendations favouring blanket alcohol restrictions. Drawing on John Law and colleagues' account of the 'double social life of methods' (2011), we analyse interviews conducted with Australian quantitative researchers about the role of gender in such violence. According to Law et al., methods inhabit and reproduce particular ecologies and reflect the concerns of those who advocate them. From this 'triple lock' of methods, realities, and institutional advocacies and contexts emerges particular modes of knowing. Participants described a research ecology in which the authority of quantitative research methods emerged in relation to an imperative to respond in a 'timely' and 'pragmatic' fashion to public policy debates, and prevailing governmental and policy priorities and public framings of violence. Though participants frequently acknowledged the role of men in violence, these arrangements sustain taken-for-granted assumptions about the properties and effects of alcohol while displacing men and masculinities from policy attention. The political consequences of these arrangements demand the development of innovative policy responses and new modes of knowing that make visible the gendering of violence.
Displacements of gender: Research on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-11-2020
Abstract: ‘Alcohol-related violence’, especially among young people participating in the night-time economy (NTE), has been the subject of intense public and policy debate in Australia. Previous sociological work has highlighted the relationship between men, masculinities and violence, but this relationship has received little attention in the research that tends to garner policy attention. In this article, we focus on the treatment of gender in Australian quantitative research on alcohol and violence in the NTE. We identify four ‘gendering practices’ through which such research genders alcohol and violence: de-gendering alcohol and violence through obscuring gender differences displacing men and masculinities via a focus on environmental, geographical and temporal factors rendering gender invisible via methodological considerations and addressing gender in limited ways. We argue that these research practices and the policy recommendations that flow from them reproduce normative understandings of alcohol effects and lend support to gendered forms of power.
‘Anytime, anywhere’: vaping as social practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2016
Moral frameworks, ethical engagement and harm reduction: commentary on ‘Ethical challenges and responses in harm reduction research: promoting applied communitarian ethics' by C. L. Fry, C. Treloar &a
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2005
The analytical, the political and the personal: Swedish stakeholder narratives about alcohol policy at football stadiums
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-04-2022
Work (still) in progress: Establishing the value of gendered innovations in the social sciences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Student's experiences of interprofessional education during fieldwork practice in community (PKL Desa Terpadu) at Poltekkes Kemenkes Maluku: A qualitative study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Missing Masculinities: Gendering Practices in Australian Alcohol Research and Policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
How feminist knowledge is made in and beyond disciplines
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-10-2022
On the Biology of Sexed Subjects
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2002
Vapers' perspectives on electronic cigarette regulation in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2015.01.019
Abstract: The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), also known as personal vaporisers (PVs), has increased rapidly in Australia despite legal barriers to the sale, possession and use of nicotine for non-therapeutic purposes. Australia is one of many countries in the process of developing regulations for these devices yet knowledge of consumers' views on e-cigarette regulation is lacking. An online survey was completed by 705 e-cigarette users recruited online. Participants answered questions about their smoking history, e-cigarette use, as well as their opinions on appropriate regulation of e-cigarettes. Most participants were male (71%), employed (72%), and highly educated (68% held post-school qualification). They tended to be former heavy smokers who had stopped smoking entirely and were currently vaping. Participants generally agreed that the government should enforce minimum labelling and packaging standards and there was majority support for minimum quality standards. Most supported making e-cigarettes available for sale to anyone over the age of 18, but expressed concern about the government's motivation for regulating e-cigarettes. There was strong opposition to restricting sales to a medicines framework (prescription only or pharmacy only sales). E-cigarette users in Australia are in favour of e-cigarettes being regulated as long as those regulations do not impede their ability to obtain devices and refill solutions, which they view as important for them to remain smoke free. These views align with some aspects of appropriate policy designed to maximise the public health potential of e-cigarettes in society, but conflict with some of the proposed regulatory models. Governments should consider how future regulation of e-cigarettes will affect current consumers while helping to maximise the number of smokers who switch to e-cigarettes and minimise the possibility of non-smokers becoming addicted to nicotine.
Diagnosing the male steroid user: drug use, body image and disordered masculinity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2005
Abstract: As steroid use has gained prominence as a dangerous form of substance abuse, two main sets of discourses have been deployed to investigate and ameliorate this emerging public health threat. This article examines these two discursive frameworks and their constitution of the male steroid user as psychologically disordered, drawing on a range of medical and psychological literature. The first framework understands steroid use as a form of illicit drug use, and constitutes the steroid user as an antisocial and excessively masculine subject. The second locates steroid use within the field of body image disorder, producing the steroid user as a damaged and feminized male, a vivid ex le of masculinity in crisis. Both of these approaches tend to elide the specificity of steroid use and its associated bodily practices in their eagerness to form it into an easily comprehended entity which can be targeted by medical and legal governance.
Critiques of harm reduction, morality and the promise of human rights
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2003
Drugged pleasures: Commentary
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Gender, inter/disciplinarity and marginality in the social sciences and humanities: A comparison of six disciplines
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Making smokers different with nicotine: NRT and quitting
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2013.01.011
Abstract: This article applies the insights of Actor Network Theory to analyse some of the actions performed by Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), a technology which separates nicotine physically and conceptually from the harms of tobacco and enhances its capacities to act against rather than for smoking. The article argues that NRT puts into action a medicalised logic of substitution in which dependence on nicotine becomes a route to health as well as a disorder to be treated. NRT thereby enables different performances of the substance nicotine, the identity smoker and the practice of quitting. The article draws on a range of smoking cessation and tobacco control literature, including medical and public health research, government-sponsored stop smoking websites and clinical guidelines to trace the changes produced by the shifting status of most forms of NRT from prescription medication to consumer health product. It also examines less conventional uses of NRT which produce varied practices of quitting and thus support the possibility of tobacco harm reduction based on the circulation of 'good nicotine'.
Introduction: Gendered innovations in the social sciences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Intoxication, harm and pleasure: an analysis of the Australian National Alcohol Strategy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Pleasure and discipline in the uses of Ritalin
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2007.08.002
Abstract: The stimulant drug methylphenidate, otherwise known as Ritalin, is the mainstay of treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and is the most common psychotropic medication prescribed to children. Whilst psychiatric discourse presents it as a safe and effective treatment, critics point out its similarity to drugs like cocaine and describe it as "legalised speed". This article examines the ambivalent identity of Ritalin as both benign medicine and dangerous drug. This paper draws on and analyses existing medical and critical literature on Ritalin, as well psychopharmacological literature on pleasure and drug use. Anxiety about the nature and use of Ritalin reflects tensions within medical and drug science about the therapeutic use of psychoactive drugs. Pleasure is central to this anxiety, as medically authorised use of drugs must not be contaminated by the uncontrolled bodily pleasures of illicit drug use. This is particularly the case for a drug like Ritalin which is used specifically to improve self-discipline and self-regulation. But the association of Ritalin with discipline rather than pleasure is complicated by pharmacological and behavioural evidence of its effects on neural reward systems and its capacities as a positive reinforcer. Ritalin is likely to maintain its ambivalent identity in medical, legal and popular discourses, despite lack of evidence of widespread abuse and addiction. The question of the correct use of Ritalin remains ultimately uncertain because of the heterogeneous and ambiguous nature of the scientific and medical discourses on psychoactive drugs.
The politics of visibility: Drug users and the spaces of drug use
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2011
ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCE: MAKING REALITIES IN THE DSM
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-04-2011
Foucault on methadone: Beyond biopower
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2008.10.005
Abstract: This essay reviews four texts which critically analyse methadone maintenance therapy using Foucault as a key theoretical framework: [Friedman, J., & Alicea, M. (2001). Surviving heroin: Interviews with women in methadone clinics. Florida: University Press of Florida], [Bourgois, P. (2000). Disciplining addictions: The bio-politics of methadone and heroin in the United States. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, 24, 165-195], [Bull, M. (2008). Governing the heroin trade: From treaties to treatment. Ashgate: Aldershot], and [Fraser, S., & valentine, k. (2008). Substance & substitution: Methadone subjects in liberal societies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan]. Taken together these works demonstrate one trajectory in the development of critical drug studies over the past decade. While all four view MMT as a regulatory technology which aims to create productive and obedient subjects, their understandings of the power relations of the clinic are quite distinct. The first two texts emphasise the social control of drug users, the third, issues of governmentality and liberal political practice, while the fourth engages with ontological questions about substances themselves. Thus while Foucauldian analysis has become familiar in social studies of drugs and alcohol, new uses for its conceptual tools continue to emerge.
Implanon® failure in an HIV-positive woman on antiretroviral therapy resulting in two ectopic pregnancies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2011
Abstract: Since its introduction in 1999, Implanon ® remains one of the preferred contraceptive choices for many women as it offers a highly effective means of long-term contraception for three years that does not rely on adherence. Like all hormonal contraceptives, certain hepatic enzyme-inducing drugs may reduce its efficacy. We present an interesting case of an HIV-positive woman on antiretroviral therapy having tubal pregnancies on two separate occasions with Implanon in place.
The object in hand: Social science of the syringe
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Foetal personhood and representations of the absent child in pregnancy loss memorialization
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-07-2009
Abstract: Because mourning and memorializing a miscarriage seems to imply acceptance of foetal personhood, feminists have been reluctant to address the often traumatic but common experience of pregnancy loss. Feminist anthropologists of reproduction have argued that adopting a view of personhood as constructed and negotiated, rather than inherent, solves this dilemma and enables the development of a feminist discourse of pregnancy loss. This article aims to make a critical contribution to such a discourse by analysing representations of lost babies and children in online pregnancy loss memorials. It focuses on two genres of representation, idealized angels and medical ultrasound images. It argues that the dominance of a biological model of personhood limits the ability of both forms of representation to secure the status of memorialized children as real. However, pregnancy loss memorials do communicate the anguish of grieving parents, in part through the very unrepresentability of their loss. They also provoke a questioning of the taken for granted subject of `the child', whether imagined or real, absent or present.
Early syphilis in a man with a negative Treponema pallidum enzyme immunoassay-IgM
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2011
Abstract: Most serological tests for syphilis rely on an in idual's ability to produce antibodies. A single screening test may be unreliable for screening in those with primary immunodeficiency. We present the first reported case of primary and secondary syphilis with negative Treponema pallidum enzyme immunoassay-IgM and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory tests in a man with common variable immunodeficiency.
A normalised future of addiction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2021
Gendering practices in quantitative research on alcohol and violence: Comparing research from Australia, Canada and Sweden
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2022.103669
Abstract: In this article, we analyse the treatment of gender in Canadian and Swedish quantitative research on alcohol and violence and compare it with the treatment of gender in similar Australian research. In previously published work, we argued that Australian research on 'alcohol-related presentations' to emergency departments, and on alcohol and violence among young people participating in the night-time economy, tends to overlook the stark gendering of violence in its analyses and policy recommendations. It does this via a series of 'gendering practices' (Bacchi, 2017): omitting gender from consideration overlooking clearly gendered data when making gender-neutral policy recommendations rendering gender invisible via methodological considerations displacing men and masculinities via a focus on environmental, geographical and temporal factors and addressing gender in limited ways. We identify a similar set of gendering practices at work in Canadian and Swedish quantitative research on alcohol and violence, as well as a key difference. This key difference emerges in relation to the practice of addressing gender. Here, we see a bifurcation in the Canadian studies: between one group of articles in which gender is central to the analyses and ensuing policy recommendations, and a second group containing only one ex le in which gender is partially addressed. We draw attention to the differing realities of gender, alcohol and violence iterated by these contrasting knowledge practices, and offer two possible explanations for this difference. We close by asking how future research analyses and policy recommendations might differ if gender-sensitive quantitative tools were developed, gender considerations were systematically integrated, and gendered effects were taken into account when alcohol policy choices are made.
Setting Yourself Free: Techniques of Recovery
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2000
DOI: 10.1177/136345930000400305
Abstract: In self-help discourses of addiction the goal is not cure but recovery, an open-ended process which requires both the adoption of certain styles of conduct and the transformation of the self. While defining recovery as a spiritual awakening, popular self-help guides also provide practical techniques of daily living for recovering addicts: from how to attend parties to how to discover one’s inner voice. Using Foucault’s notion of technologies of the self to examine specific practices of recovery and their constitution of an ideal self defined by health, authenticity and freedom, the article argues that the project of self-formation relies on techniques of habit formation that conflict with self-help discourse’s notion of freedom. Refiguring recovery as a matter of habit compromises the transcendental notion of freedom proclaimed by self-help discourse, destabilizing the opposition between addiction and recovery that is supposed to mark improvement.
Recurrence of breast cancer after regional or general anaesthesia: a randomised controlled trial
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2019
The Toxic Womb: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Alcoholism and the Female Body
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1996
Disorders of Desire: Addiction and Problems of Intimacy
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2004
Feminism and the Complexities of Gender and Health
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Article Commentary: Denormalisation, public space and smoking identities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2016
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