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List of works by Philippe Bourgois

"Every 'never' I ever said came true": transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting

scientific article published on 19 October 2013

Acceptability of a safer injection facility among injection drug users in San Francisco.

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Commentary on Genberg et al. (2011): The structural vulnerability imposed by hypersegregated US inner-city neighborhoods - a theoretical and practical challenge for substance abuse research

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Ethnographic Lessons from Central America

scholarly article by Philippe Bourgois published February 1990 in Journal of Peace Research

Drug use generations and patterns of injection drug use: Birth cohort differences among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Drug use patterns in the presence of crack in downtown Montréal

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Education, empowerment and community based structural reinforcement: an HIV prevention response to mass incarceration and removal.

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Ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors

scientific article published on January 2007

Examining the associations between sex trade involvement, rape, and symptomatology of sexual abuse trauma.

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Explaining the geographical variation of HIV among injection drug users in the United States

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HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rican People Who Inject Drugs: Policy Considerations

scientific article published in January 2015

Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Injecting drugs in tight spaces: HIV, cocaine and collinearity in the Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, Canada.

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Interdisciplinary mixed methods research with structurally vulnerable populations: case studies of injection drug users in San Francisco.

scientific article published on 09 January 2013

Low-Frequency Heroin Injection among Out-of-Treatment, Street-Recruited Injection Drug Users

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Lumpen Abuse: The Human Cost of Righteous Neoliberalism.

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Masculinity and undocumented labor migration: injured latino day laborers in San Francisco.

scientific article published on September 2004

Non-partner violence against women who use drugs in San Francisco

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Pathologizing poverty: new forms of diagnosis, disability, and structural stigma under welfare reform.

scientific article published on February 2014

Potency-enhancing synthetics in the drug overdose epidemic: xylazine (“tranq”), fentanyl, methamphetamine, and the displacement of heroin in Philadelphia and Tijuana

peer reviewed, open access article published in Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

Qualitative social research in addictions publishing: Creating an enabling journal environment.

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Reinterpreting ethnic patterns among white and African American men who inject heroin: a social science of medicine approach

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Sexual pleasure and sexual risk among women who use methamphetamine: a mixed methods study.

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Structural Vulnerability: Operationalizing the Concept to Address Health Disparities in Clinical Care.

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Structural vulnerability and health: Latino migrant laborers in the United States

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Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia's Puerto Rican inner-city

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City.

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The Textures of Heroin: User Perspectives on "Black Tar" and Powder Heroin in Two U.S. Cities.

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research: Four ethnographic case studies

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

The growing popularity of prescription opioid injection in downtown Montréal: new challenges for harm reduction.

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The political economy of resistance and self-destruction in the crack economy. An ethnographic perspective.

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The price of adherence: qualitative findings from HIV positive individuals purchasing fixed-dose combination generic HIV antiretroviral therapy in Kampala, Uganda

scientific article published on July 2006

The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.

scientific article published on 19 March 2005

Urban segregation and the US heroin market: a quantitative model of anthropological hypotheses from an inner-city drug market

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