Apologies for cross-posting
Please join us for the fourth of our LSHTM Medical Anthropology seminars this year on Tuesday 5th June from 4pm-5pm in the Manson Lecture Theatre, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT ( https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/contact/location )
We will head out for drinks after the seminar to a nearby pub.
Tuesday 5th June - Lenore Manderson- 'Preemptive diagnosis, anticipatory prescribing and antimicrobial resistance in urban South Africa'
Abstract: Drawing on interview and observational data from public health centres and private primary care surgeries in Johannesburg, I explore local ideas of immunity, resistance and stewardship, and how these influence prescribing practice and the use of common medication. I suggest that health providers operate in a subjunctive mode, making decisions based on their understandings of how risk factors might be mediated by social and economic exigencies. In explaining the prescription of antibiotics for URTI symptoms, I highlight how decisions to prescribe are based on patient expectations, providers' understandings of contingencies and taken-for-granted conditions, pathological possibilities and risks of future infection.
For more information please contact: Rebecca Lynch ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Melissa Parker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
All welcome, please distribute widely.
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Rebecca Lynch
Research Fellow (Medical Anthropology)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH
020 7636 8636 ext. 8298
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