Purbasha Mazumdar
Purbasha Mazumdar is a doctoral candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a visiting scholar at the King's College London. Her doctoral research, ethnographically and historically, explores the making of the crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance by tacking across, and dissecting the coming together, of scales ranging from the geopolitical and the microbial/ the environment and the individual/the global and the local. The project attempts to understand how this crisis plays out, and is articulated across sites, in India.
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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 […]
