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Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users: the legal geography of a supervised injecting facility
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Williams, S, Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users: the legal geography of a supervised injecting facility, Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State Ongoing Regulation, Resistance and Change, Routledge, S Williams, B Warf (ed), Ablington, United Kingdom, pp. 95-108. ISBN 9781138700451 (2017) [Other Book Chapter]
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Abstract
Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre delivers the significant benefits of harm
reduction, but has been controversial regards the law. Its contested history is examined here
through the Jens of legal geography. Narrative analysis reveals that the arguments for and
against the centre's establishment referenced matters ranging from international treaties
through to municipal govenance. These arguments and their outcome were variously
shaped by the different spaces and scales of jurisdiction but not simply in a zero sum game
of law played out through the hierarchically ordered nesting of container-like territories. The
implications for legal geography and for public health are discussed.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Other Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | drugs, public health, law, policy |
| Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
| Research Group: | Human Geography |
| Research Field: | Social and Cultural Geography |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
| UTAS Author: | Williams, S (Dr Stewart Williams) |
| ID Code: | 121284 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Deposited By: | Geography and Spatial Science |
| Deposited On: | 2017-09-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-12-14 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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