Understanding the promise of methadone requires an appreciation of how this object of intervention is 'made' through its representations locally and, in this process, how global 'evidence' about it is negotiated and used.
I do consider it my duty, to myself and younger generations, to follow the example my mother set by doing everything in my power to ensure that I will never be the object of medical intervention that cannot restore my life but can only prolong a costly living death.
In this approach, the community is the object of the intervention [ 17].
The smoking habits of medical students—especially of physicians specializing in public health have only rarely been the object of studies and interventions in Italy, and the focus of the published literature is generally narrow.
The professionals of the participating centres who have been included in the Control Group will maintain the usual standard care for healthy lifestyle promotion in the Basque Health Service – OSAKIDETZA and will not be the object of any formative process or intervention.
It is within this analysis of scholarly practice that childhood was first seen as an object of intervention and discipline3.
(Tantam and Huband, 2009: 4) As well as the explicit differentiation, they compress the varied ' cutting, burning, or otherwise damaging their skin and its underlying tissue' into 'many of those who cut themselves' (Tantam and Huband, 2009: 4, emphases added); their chosen object of intervention – as they participate in its (re production – is narrowed further.
Other preventive interventions that are the object of much research and activities in the West focus on nutritional habits and energy balance, clearly an increasing problem in emerging economies as shown by rising rates of diabetes [ 9].
This intervention should subsequently be made the object of research, designed to evaluate its safety and efficacy.
I would reply that while the "multilayered social milieu" is properly the object of academic attention — it can be described, analyzed and mapped — it is not the proper object of academic intervention.
