Month: January 2025

Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 10: “Almost everyone has personal stories of liver cancer”: An account of the historical and contemporary world of liver cancer in Senegal

Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 10: “Almost everyone has personal stories of liver cancer”: An account of the historical and contemporary world of liver cancer in Senegal

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Noemi Tousignant, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. In this episode, we hear from Noemi Tousignant about the history of knowledge production, vaccine trials and economic infrastructures which help us […]
Of Promiscuous Plasmids and Itinerant Patients: How Resistance Became a Global Health Crisis

Of Promiscuous Plasmids and Itinerant Patients: How Resistance Became a Global Health Crisis

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I.  Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in a subsidiary of the eminent medical journal The Lancet. The paper detailed its findings on a newly identified genetic sequence in bacteria that conferred resistance to most […]