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Original Article

Ethnography and Illicit Drug Use: Dispatches from an Anthropologist in the “Field”

David Moore National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Curtin University Of Technology, GPO Box U 1987, Perth, 6001, Western Australia
(Research Associate)
Pages 11-25 | Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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Amy Pennay. (2012) Carnal Pleasures and Grotesque Bodies: Regulating the Body during a “Big Night Out” of Alcohol and Party Drug Use. Contemporary Drug Problems 39:3, pages 397-428.
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Jeremy Northcote & David Moore. 2010. Addiction Research Methods. Addiction Research Methods 285 298 .
David Moore. (2002) Ethnography and the Australian drug field: emaciation, appropriation and multidisciplinary myopia. International Journal of Drug Policy 13:4, pages 271-284.
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David Moore & Lisa Maher. (2002) Ethnography and multidisciplinarity in the drug field. International Journal of Drug Policy 13:4, pages 245-247.
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John Fitzgerald & Margaret Hamilton. (1996) The consequences of knowing: Ethical and legal liabilities in illicit drug research. Social Science & Medicine 43:11, pages 1591-1600.
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Consuelo Garcia‐Andrade, Tamara L. Wall & Cindy L. Ehlers. (2006) Alcohol Expectancies in a Native American Population. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 20:8, pages 1438-1442.
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David Moore. (2010) Social controls, harm minimisation and interactive outreach: the public health implications of an ethnography of drug use. Australian Journal of Public Health 17:1, pages 58-67.
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