By Honorary Professor Suzanne Fraser

Journal articles

Fraser S, 2025, '“Staying with the Trouble” in Ontopolitical Research on Drugs: Keynote presentation delivered at the 2023 Contemporary Drug Problems Conference, Paris', Contemporary Drug Problems, 52, pp. 7 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509231220685

Nourse G; Moore D; Fraser S, 2024, 'Who Veridicts Health? Health Professional Discourses on Performance and Image-Enhancing Drugs (PIEDs), Health, and Masculinity', Contemporary Drug Problems, 51, pp. 247 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509241288253

Moore D; Fraser S; Farrugia A; Fomiatti R; Edwards M; Birbilis E; Treloar C, 2024, 'Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non-compliance’ in the antiviral era', Sociology of Health and Illness, 46, pp. 399 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13712

Farrugia A; Lenton E; Seear K; Kagan D; valentine K; Fraser S; Mulcahy S; Edwards M; Jeffcote D, 2024, ''We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift', Social Science and Medicine, 340, pp. 116416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116416

Nourse G; Fraser S; Moore D, 2024, 'Masculine enhancement as health or pathology: gender and optimisation discourses in health promotion materials on performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs)', Health Sociology Review, 33, pp. 289 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2023.2297046

Ferguson N; Farrugia A; Moore D; Fraser S, 2024, 'Remaking the ‘angry Narcanned subject’: Affording new subject positions through take-home naloxone training', International Journal of Drug Policy, 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104253

Nourse G; Farrugia A; Fraser S; Moore D; Treloar C, 2023, 'Optimism and eternal vigilance: Gathering disease, responsible subjects and the hope of elimination in the new hepatitis C treatment era', International Journal of Drug Policy, 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104142

Mulcahy S; Seear K; Fraser S; Farrugia A; Kagan D; Lenton E; Valentine K, 2023, 'Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law', Law and Literature, 37, pp. 113 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2023.2221950

Seear K; Fraser S; Mulcahy S; Kagan D; Lenton E; Farrugia A; valentine K, 2023, 'Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject', Social and Legal Studies, 32, pp. 216 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09646639221115698

Kagan D; Seear K; Lenton E; Farrugia A; valentine K; Mulcahy S; Fraser S, 2023, 'The trouble with normalisation: Transformations to hepatitis C health care and stigma in an era of viral elimination', Sociology of Health and Illness, 45, pp. 1421 - 1440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13638

Waling A; Farrugia A; Fraser S, 2023, 'Embarrassment, Shame, and Reassurance: Emotion and Young People’s Access to Online Sexual Health Information', Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20, pp. 45 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-021-00668-6

Fomiatti R; Farrugia A; Fraser S; Moore D; Edwards M; Treloar C, 2023, 'Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment', Time and Society, 32, pp. 50 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463X221128736

Seear K; Mulcahy S; Kagan D; Lenton E; Fraser S; Valentine K; Farrugia A, 2023, 'Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post-hepatitis C futures', Sociology of Health and Illness, 45, pp. 179 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13562

valentine K; Lenton E; Seear K; Fraser S; Kagan D; Farrugia A; Mulcahy S; Edwards M; Jeffcote D, 2023, 'Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C', Critical Public Health, 33, pp. 803 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2023.2287959

Fomiatti R; Farrugia A; Fraser S; Hocking S, 2023, 'Improving the effectiveness and inclusiveness of alcohol and other drug outreach models for young people: a literature review', Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, 30, pp. 105 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1975652

Seear K; Fraser S, 2023, 'Making Australian institutions in newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement: exceptionalism, co-production and agency', Feminist Media Studies, 23, pp. 836 - 851, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.2010788

Shaw F; Fomiatti R; Farrugia A; Fraser S, 2023, 'Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility', Sociology of Health and Illness, 45, pp. 19 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13558

Fomiatti R; Shaw F; Fraser S, 2022, '‘It's a different way to do medicine’: Exploring the affordances of telehealth for hepatitis C healthcare', International Journal of Drug Policy, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103875

Fraser S; Moore D; Farrugia A; Fomiatti R; Edwards M; Birbilis E; Treloar C, 2022, 'Exhausted practical sovereignty and lateral agency: Non-uptake of treatment for hepatitis C in the antiviral era', International Journal of Drug Policy, 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103771

Farrugia A; Fomiatti R; Fraser S; Moore D; Edwards M; Birbilis E; Treloar C, 2022, 'Hepatitis C cure as a ‘gathering’: Attending to the social and material relations of hepatitis C treatment', Sociology of Health and Illness, 44, pp. 830 - 847, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13467

Fomiatti R; Farrugia A; Fraser S; Dwyer R; Neale J; Strang J, 2022, 'Addiction stigma and the production of impediments to take-home naloxone uptake', Health United Kingdom, 26, pp. 139 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459320925863

Fomiatti R; Savic M; Fraser S; Edwards M; Farrugia A, 2022, 'Heavy drinking as phenomenon: gender and agency in accounts of men’s heavy drinking', Health Sociology Review, 31, pp. 16 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1850317

Farrugia A; Treloar C; Fraser S, 2022, 'Overdoselifesavers.org: a mixed-method evaluation of a public information website on experiences of overdose and using take-home naloxone to save lives', Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, 29, pp. 43 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2020.1858758

Neale J; Farrugia A; Campbell AN; Dietze P; Dwyer R; Fomiatti R; Jones JD; Comer SD; Fraser S; Strang J, 2022, 'Understanding preferences for type of take-home naloxone device: international qualitative analysis of the views of people who use opioids', Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, 29, pp. 109 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1872499

Fomiatti R; Moore D; Fraser S; Farrugia A, 2021, 'Holding ‘new recovery’ together: Organising relations and forms of coordination in professional sociomaterial practices of addiction recovery', International Journal of Drug Policy, 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103357

Farrugia A; Waling A; Pienaar K; Fraser S, 2021, 'The “Be All and End All”? Young People, Online Sexual Health Information, Science and Skepticism', Qualitative Health Research, 31, pp. 2097 - 2110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323211003543

Seear K; Fraser S; Farrugia A; valentine K, 2021, 'Beyond a ‘post-cure’ world: Sketches for a new futurology of hepatitis C', International Journal of Drug Policy, 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103042

Fraser S; Moore D; Waling A; Farrugia A, 2021, 'Corrigendum to “Making epistemic citizens: Young people and the search for reliable and credible sexual health information” (Social Science & Medicine (2021) 276, (113817), (S0277953621001490), (10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113817))', Social Science and Medicine, 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114032

Seear K; Fraser S; Boyd S, 2021, 'A highly charged field: Mapping energies, currents and desires for reform in Canadian expert responses to drug law', International Journal of Drug Policy, 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102936

Fraser S; Moore D; Waling A; Farrugia A, 2021, 'Making epistemic citizens: Young people and the search for reliable and credible sexual health information', Social Science and Medicine, 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113817

Seear K; Moore D; Fraser S; Fomiatti R; Aitken C, 2020, 'Consumption in contrast: The politics of comparison in healthcare practitioners’ accounts of men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs', International Journal of Drug Policy, 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102883

Fraser S; Moore D; Farrugia A; Edwards M; Madden A, 2020, 'Exclusion and hospitality: the subtle dynamics of stigma in healthcare access for people emerging from alcohol and other drug treatment', Sociology of Health and Illness, 42, pp. 1801 - 1820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13180

Moore D; Hart A; Fraser S; Seear K, 2020, 'Masculinities, practices and meanings: A critical analysis of recent literature on the use of performance- and image-enhancing drugs among men', Health United Kingdom, 24, pp. 719 - 736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459319838595

Fraser S, 2020, 'Doing ontopolitically-oriented research: Synthesising concepts from the ontological turn for alcohol and other drug research and other social sciences', International Journal of Drug Policy, 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.102610

Fraser S; Fomiatti R; Moore D; Seear K; Aitken C, 2020, 'Is another relationship possible? Connoisseurship and the doctor–patient relationship for men who consume performance and image-enhancing drugs', Social Science and Medicine, 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112720

Farrugia A; Neale J; Dwyer R; Fomiatti R; Fraser S; Strang J; Dietze P, 2020, 'Conflict and communication: managing the multiple affordances of take-home naloxone administration events in Australia', Addiction Research and Theory, 28, pp. 29 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2019.1571193

Farrugia A; Pienaar K; Fraser S; Edwards M; Madden A, 2020, 'Basic care as exceptional care: addiction stigma and consumer accounts of quality healthcare in Australia', Health Sociology Review, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1789485

Fomiatti R; Lenton E; Latham JR; Fraser S; Moore D; Seear K; Aitken C, 2020, 'Maintaining the healthy body: Blood management and hepatitis C prevention among men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs', International Journal of Drug Policy, 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.10.016

Seear K; Fraser S; Madden A, 2020, 'The Problem of the Subject: The Politics of Post-mortem Rights in the Aftermath of Drug-related Deaths', Australian Feminist Law Journal, 46, pp. 169 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1885201

Dwyer R; Fraser S, 2019, 'Celebrity enactments of addiction on Twitter', Convergence, 25, pp. 1044 - 1062, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856517714168

Fomiatti R; Moore D; Fraser S, 2019, 'The improvable self: enacting model citizenship and sociality in research on ‘new recovery’', Addiction Research and Theory, 27, pp. 527 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2018.1544624

Fomiatti R; Latham JR; Fraser S; Moore D; Seear K; Aitken C, 2019, 'A ‘messenger of sex’? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting', Health Sociology Review, 28, pp. 323 - 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2019.1678398

Sarmiento E; Seear K; Fraser S, 2019, 'Enacting Alcohol and Other Drug (Testing)-Related Harms in an Australian Drug Court', Contemporary Drug Problems, 46, pp. 282 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450919865299

Treloar C; Pienaar K; Dilkes-Frayne E; Fraser S, 2019, 'Lives of Substance: a mixed-method evaluation of a public information website on addiction experiences', Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, 26, pp. 140 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2017.1397602

Farrugia A; Fraser S; Dwyer R; Fomiatti R; Neale J; Dietze P; Strang J, 2019, 'Take-home naloxone and the politics of care', Sociology of Health and Illness, 41, pp. 427 - 443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12848

Latham JR; Fraser S; Fomiatti R; Moore D; Seear K; Aitken C, 2019, 'Men’s Performance and Image-Enhancing Drug Use as Self-Transformation: Working Out in Makeover Culture', Australian Feminist Studies, 34, pp. 149 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2019.1644952

Fraser S; valentine K; Ekendahl M, 2018, 'Drugs, Brains and Other Subalterns: Public Debate and the New Materialist Politics of Addiction', Body and Society, 24, pp. 58 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X18781738

Fraser S; Farrugia A; Dwyer R, 2018, 'Grievable lives? Death by opioid overdose in Australian newspaper coverage', International Journal of Drug Policy, 59, pp. 28 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.06.004

Seear K; Fraser S, 2018, 'Euthanasia for what? Attending to the role of stigma in addiction-related ‘intractable suffering’ and ‘incurability’', Addiction, 113, pp. 1181 - 1182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14105

Fraser S; Ekendahl M, 2018, '“Getting Better”: The Politics of Comparison in Addiction Treatment and Research', Contemporary Drug Problems, 45, pp. 87 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450917748163

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