Last Friday 17 November 2017, the AMIS Hub together with LSHTM’s Antimicrobial Resistance Centre hosted a film and panel event as part of World Antibiotics Awareness Week (details below).
If you couldn’t make it to the event yourself, the panel chair Madlen Davies has posted an excellent summary (with some fascinating images from the Wellcome Collection archives) on her blog for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which you may enjoy. If you would like to keep up to date on our future activities, do sign up for our newsletter.
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The Third Man: a World Antibiotics Awareness Week film and panel event
Date: Friday, 17 November 2017 from 17:30 to 20:30 (GMT)
Venue: John Snow Lecture Theatre, Keppel Street
Set in postwar Vienna, Austria, The Third Man stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to find him dead! This award-winning 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is widely considered the best British film of the 20th century, and might still have lessons for us today.
The panel will discuss (a) how the film depicts the roles of antimicrobials in society after they had so recently been mass-produced; (b) how this has changed today; and (c) how the roles of antimicrobials has spread and gained traction across the world.
Panel
Chair: Ms. Madlen Davies, health and science reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
1) Dr. Clare Chandler, Medical Anthropologist, co-Director of the Antimicrobial Resistance Centre & Principal Investigator of the AMIS Hub, LSHTM
2) Dr. Laura Shallcross, NIHR Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant in Public Health, UCL
3) Mr. Ross Macfarlane, Research Development Lead, Wellcome Collection
The Third Man: How are we entwined with antimicrobials today?
Last Friday 17 November 2017, the AMIS Hub together with LSHTM’s Antimicrobial Resistance Centre hosted a film and panel event as part of World Antibiotics Awareness Week (details below).
If you couldn’t make it to the event yourself, the panel chair Madlen Davies has posted an excellent summary (with some fascinating images from the Wellcome Collection archives) on her blog for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which you may enjoy. If you would like to keep up to date on our future activities, do sign up for our newsletter.
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The Third Man: a World Antibiotics Awareness Week film and panel event
Date: Friday, 17 November 2017 from 17:30 to 20:30 (GMT)
Venue: John Snow Lecture Theatre, Keppel Street
Set in postwar Vienna, Austria, The Third Man stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to find him dead! This award-winning 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is widely considered the best British film of the 20th century, and might still have lessons for us today.
The panel will discuss (a) how the film depicts the roles of antimicrobials in society after they had so recently been mass-produced; (b) how this has changed today; and (c) how the roles of antimicrobials has spread and gained traction across the world.
Panel
Chair: Ms. Madlen Davies, health and science reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
1) Dr. Clare Chandler, Medical Anthropologist, co-Director of the Antimicrobial Resistance Centre & Principal Investigator of the AMIS Hub, LSHTM
2) Dr. Laura Shallcross, NIHR Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant in Public Health, UCL
3) Mr. Ross Macfarlane, Research Development Lead, Wellcome Collection
Essential Reading
Presenting summaries of, and links to, relevant books and journal articles on the topic of antimicrobials in society.
Biosocial Worlds
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health
Will increased funding for neglected tropical diseases really make poverty history?
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Beyond the Simple Economics of Cesarean Section Birthing
The complexities of simple technologies
Commentary
Presenting summaries of, and links to, relevant books and journal articles on the topic of antimicrobials in society.
Care-ful collaboration: reimagining ethnography in transnational global health...
In this AMIS Commentary, Alice Tompson presents reflections on the collaborative working of the Antimicrobials in Society research teams, based...
AMR Training for Social Scientists
In this Q&A, Karlijn Hofstraat and Danny de Vries tell us about their “SPECIAL-SOC AMR” curriculum, a fantastic learning resource...
AMIS Final Report
We are delighted to release our AMIS Final Report. The report summarises the key activities, findings and outputs from the...
Explore our themes
Presenting summaries of, and links to, relevant books and journal articles on the topic of antimicrobials in society.
Care
How do antimicrobials shape care for people, animals and plants?
Knowledge
How do we make AMR Policy?
Pharmaceuticals and Markets
Antimicrobial use is shaped by the contexts within which they are prescribed, sold and traded.
Ecologies
AMR requires us to consider how human life is entangled with microbial life, animal life, plant life, and the environment.