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Fast Relief

The experience of time famine in contemporary U.S. culture affects household decisions about self‐care and the use of pharmaceuticals for selfmedication. This article examines the manner in which time demands shape lay interpretations of medicine efficacy and drive increases in medication use for adults as well as children. Medicines, like other time‐saving commodities, appear to […] Pat Ng

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The story of ‘How do we get patients to stop demanding antibiotics?' to where we are now. diva admin

How do antimicrobials shape care for people, animals and plants? diva admin

– Coll de Lima Hutchison –

Coll is an anthropologist of science in the Anti-Microbials in Society (AMIS) Hub and the DFID funded Febrile Illness Evaluation in a Broad Range of Endemicities (FIEBRE) study. His research seeks to combine political ecologies of health and disease with historical analysis and critical engagement with epidemiology and biological sciences, more broadly. His research follows microbes and […] diva admin

– Alice Street –

My research focuses on the material politics of global health, with a focus on Papua New Guinea and South India. In 2017 I started a European Research Council funded project on diagnostic devices in global health. The DiaDev project, Investigating the Design and Use of Diagnostic Devices in Global Health, explores the […] diva admin

– Clare Chandler –

Clare’s research focus has been on the use of antimicrobial medicines and diagnostics in global health. She directs the LSHTM Antimicrobial Resistance Centre and leads the Anthropology of AMR research group. Further information on Clare is available on her institutional profile. Pat Ng

– Komatra Chuengsatiansup –

Komatra Chuengsatiansup is a medical anthropologist, medical doctor and director of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center (SAC), a national academic institute working to promote better public understanding of anthropology and to strengthen the anthropological community. As the previous director of the Society and Health Institute, his works are instrumental in integrating an anthropological […] Pat Ng

– Laurie Denyer Willis –

Laurie is an anthropologist concerned with the urban and political ecologies of health and disease in post-colonial landscapes. Her research explores animal-human-capital relations, religion, and suburbanism. Laurie works as a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the the Department of Politics and International Studies. Further information on Laurie is available on her personal […] Pat Ng

– Luechai Sringernyuang –

Luechai Sringernyuang is an Associate Professor in medical anthropologist, Director of Contemplative Education Center at Mahidol University, Thailand. His research and teaching focus on qualitative methodology, pharmaceutical anthropology, the anthropology of infections and chronic diseases, accidents, and HIV/AIDS. In the past, he has been an advisor to the Asian Development Bank, a consultant for the […] Pat Ng

– Nik Brown –

Nik Brown is professor in sociology at the University of York working across Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Sociology of Health and Illness (SHI). He has several decades of research and scholarship experience working first on the regulation and governance of the biosciences. His interest in novel and legally challenging areas of biology […] Pat Ng