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Please join us for the next London Medical Sociology Group seminar
Wednesday 29th March 6-7 pm, Thresholds of resistance - the 'biotic politics' of antibiotics
Prof Nik Brown, University of York
This paper reflects on the way antibiotic resistance (AMR) is historically situated at a particular juncture or 'threshold' in what we might call 'biotic politics'. To what extent, for example, has AMR become a medium for the expression of cultural ambivalence about hygiene, dirt, nature, infections, bugs and the non-self or immunitary 'other'? How is the nature and politics of AMR reshaping the problematic thresholds between 'working with' and 'working against' the biotic? Is it possible to see in AMR the potential for reconfiguring the political and material thresholds of hygienism, pre-hygienism and post-hygienism? What, we might ask, are the limits and tipping points between infective safety and endangerment, between a positive immunity and damaging autoimmunity? I want to explore this question of thresholds in two very loosely interconnected contexts. The first is that of British economic politics spanning the last decade or so in which AMR becomes an opportunity to advance a particular kind of 'working against'. The second context locates AMR in the precarious world of cystic fibrosis treatment where survivability depends upon certain kinds of 'working with' the biotic.
After Prof Brown's talk, we will open up the session for a general discussion and follow this with a trip to a nearby pub.
*Venue*
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Room G9 (Faculty Meeting Room)
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
Nearest train/tube stations: Russell Square, Euston and King's Cross
This event is free and open to all
Contact:
Oliver Bonnington [log in to unmask]
Lorelei Jones [log in to unmask]
Dr Lorelei Jones
Senior Research Associate
Department of Applied Health Research, UCL
1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB
T. 07714687184
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@dr_loreleijones
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