Your input is needed! This site is meant as a platform you – postgraduate students. That means you need to be proactive and share your insights, recommendations, ideas, and knowledge. Even things you might not consider important enough can be worth sharing. So keep your eyes and ears open – then share. Consider this a […]
Kenneth Yates PhD Candidate, National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR, University of New South Wales) Vitellone’s (2003) work on the syringe as an object-in-use provides a useful framework for research about people who inject drugs and the equipment that they use. The notion of the object-in-use suggests that the needle and syringe might usefully be […]
Jed Horner PhD candidate, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales Borders, and practices of what Van Houtum et al. (2005) term ‘b/ordering’, whereby borders are seemingly rendered meaningful and concrete, remain a focus of political discourse(s) in Australia and are increasingly an object of analysis. In this paper, I respond […]
(Non)Medical Pain Problems? Participant Perspectives on Problematized Notions of Pain George Christopher Dertadian (Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Culture & Society, University of Western Sydney) Of the many contentious elements of the debate about pain, it would seem that the medical community agree on one thing; pain is a physical problem. Indeed it seems a commonsense assumption […]
Recent Comments