Incitements to discourse: Illicit drugs, harm reduction, and the production of ethnographic subjects

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 688-717

  Campbell, Nancy D ^a   Shaw, Susan J ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug research; Ethnography; Governmentality; Harm reduction; HIV

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349168542     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00023.x     Document Type: Article

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