'I just want to be normal': An analysis of discourses of normality among recovering heroin users

Health (United Kingdom)

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 174-190

  Nettleton, Sarah ^a   Neale, Joanne ^b   Pickering, Lucy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; drug misuse; Foucault; governmentality; normality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875647826     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459312451182     Document Type: Article

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