The becoming‐methadone‐body: on the onto‐politics of health intervention translations.
In this paper, we reflect on health intervention translations as matters of their implementation practices. Our case is methadone treatment, an intervention promoted globally for treating opioid dependence and preventing HIV among people who inject drugs. Tracing methadone's translations in high‐sec...
| Published in: | Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 41; no. 8; pp. 1618 - 1637 |
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