Exploring the value of photography and video as legitimate forms of social enquiry, An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction constitutes a guidebook for conducting applied visual sociology within health related or social science research projects, providing a full account of the visual research journey and presenting a tested template for conducting theoretically-driven, sociologically-informed research.

Stephen Parkin is a qualitative researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services, University of Oxford, UK and author of An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction.

List of Boxes, Tables and Figures, Acknowledgements, Part I. Review, Introduction, 1. Considering an Applied Visual Sociology?, 2. Harm Reduction and Injecting Drug Use, Part II. Empiricism, 3. Methodology and Methods, 4. Analysis, 5. Drug Using Environments as a 'Continuum of Descending Safety', 6. Drug Related Litter as Visual Data, 7. The Management of Drug Related Litter in UK Settings, Part III. An applied visual sociology, 8. The Value of Applied Visual Data in 'Real World' Settings, 9. Towards an Applied Visual Sociology, 10. Practical Exercises in Applied Visual Sociology, References, Appendix I: A Harm Reduction Response to Media Reports of Needlestick Injury/Drug Related Litter, Appendix II: Frontline: A Photo-Ethnography of Drug-Using Environments, Index