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Philippe Bourgois
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 130
Citations - 10653
Philippe Bourgois is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Heroin. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 120 publications receiving 9610 citations. Previous affiliations of Philippe Bourgois include University of California & University of California, San Francisco.
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
TL;DR: A street history of El Barrio can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss addiction, discipline, and dignity of crackhouse management, and 'Goin' legit': disrespect and resistance at work.
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The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.
TL;DR: It is argued that much of the most needed 'structural HIV prevention' is unavoidably political in that it calls for community actions and structural changes within a broad framework concerned to alleviate inequity in health, welfare and human rights.
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Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States
TL;DR: In this article, structural vulnerability is defined as a positionality that imposes physical/emotional suffering on specific population groups and individuals in patterned ways, a product of class-based economic exploitation and cultural, gender/sexual, and racialized discrimination, as well as complementary processes of depreciated subjectivity formation.
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Disciplining addictions: the bio-politics of methadone and heroin in the United States.
TL;DR: An ethnographic perspective on the ways street-based heroin addicts experience methadone reveals the quagmire of powerrelations that shape drug treatment in the United States.
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“Every ‘Never’ I Ever Said Came True”: Transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting
TL;DR: A nationwide up-cycle of heroin use may be occurring among young inner city, suburban and rural youth fueled by widespread prescription opioid pill use.