Month: October 2026

In the Journals October 2026

Posted on October 26, 2026

Somatosphere welcomes you to the October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. BioSocieties Modeling the ‘patient cell:’ performances of proximity and the making of pathological proxies Timo Roßmann Scientists evaluate disease models by their capacity to capture salient features of […]

The Frontline Middlemen: How Pharmaceutical technicians navigate ‘fake’ biomedicine anxieties in Morogoro, Tanzania

Keketso John Peete

Posted on October 20, 2026

Series:
Middlemen and global health: What we found when we searched for fake drugs

Mwanga is a 27 year-old pharmaceutical technician and was one of my closest associates during my 11-month stay in Morogoro Town, Tanzania, for fieldwork. After Mwanga graduated from St Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, with an Ordinary Diploma in Pharmaceutical Sciences, she obtained a job at a drug shop, locally known as […]