ArticleHealth care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy2020
Toward a Philosophy of Harm Reduction.
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- Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach.Progress in human geography · 2026Article
- Choosing Less Harmful Alternatives: The Ethics of Harm Reduction in Emerging Technologies.Science and engineering ethics · 2025Article
- Embedding into the ways of working in the NHS: A seamless transition and reflective learning as a clinical observer in general internal medicine.Future healthcare journal · 2025Article
- Exploring and describing alcohol harm reduction interventions: a scoping review of literature from the past decade in the western world.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Labeled as "drug-seeking": nurses use harm reduction philosophy to reflect on mending mutual distrust between healthcare workers and people who use drugs.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Sex trafficking survivors' experiences with the healthcare system during exploitation: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Service providers' use of harm reduction approaches in working with older adults experiencing abuse: a qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this paper, I offer a prolegomenon to the philosophy of harm reduction. I begin with an overview of the philosophical literature on both harm and harm reduction, and a brief summary of harm reduction scholarship outside of philosophy in order to make the case that philosophers have something to contribute to understanding harm reduction, and moreover that engagement with harm reduction would improve philosophical scholarship. I then proceed to survey and assess the nascent and still modest philosophy of harm reduction literature that has begun to emerge. I pay particular attention to two Canadian philosophers who have called for the expansion of harm reduction beyond the realm of so-called "vice" (that is, addiction, intoxicants and sex work). Finally, I sketch some of the most interesting and important philosophical issues that I think the philosophy of harm reduction must grapple with going forward.
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