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The Third Man: How are we entwined with antimicrobials today?

A film event and panel discussion for World Antibiotics Awareness Week 2017 diva admin

Submissions to the AMIS Hub

Are you a social scientist who is working in antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? Pat Ng

Antimicrobials are central to many contemporary forms of care and production for humans, animals, plants and even objects – clothing, for example, uses antimicrobials in the production process. The sheer scale of our current dependence on antimicrobials means that in order to have any chance of addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) we are greatly in need […] Pat Ng

Drugs, Bugs and our Precarious Existence

This weekend I had the privilege of engaging with Laura Piddock and Ed Whiting and members of the public at the Hay-on-Wye How The Light Gets In Festival. Angela Saini, health journalist, asked us whether it will be possible to defeat antimicrobial resistance, or whether we should come to terms with our precarious existence. I liked […] Pat Ng

Anti-biosis? – Social and Cultural Inquiries into Human-Microbe Relations

Two of us from the AMIS Programme Team (Clare Chandler and Komatra Chuengsatiansup) are acting as associate editors for Palgrave Communications – the multidisciplinary open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan – for a special issue on Anti-biosis? – Social and Cultural Inquiries into Human-Microbe Relations. We and are excited to have received some excellent submissions so far, and already see the collection is shaping up to be a cutting-edge resource on AMR with research contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Pat Ng

Notes from the Field: Urban informal settlement, Kampala

‘We live with risk,’ he tells me, as we weave our way along the railway line that cuts through the informal settlement where we are studying the roles of antimicrobial medicines in everyday life. Pat Ng

Social Science and AMR Research Symposium: Event

The AMIS Programme hosted a work-in-progress symposium and networking event on 10 September 2018, at the British Academy. Pat Ng

Social Science and AMR Research Symposium: Summary

At the beginning of September the AMIS team hosted a one-day Social Science in AMR Symposium at the British Academy. Pat Ng

AMR Symposium: Presentation Videos

In September 2018 the AMIS Programme hosted a symposium to highlight the work of early career scholars that are exploring fresh perspectives on the topic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Presentations that were filmed, including a keynote from Stephen Hinchliffe (University of Exeter), are now available. Pat Ng

Solo efforts will not curb antibiotic resistance

Shortly after it was revealed that antibiotics crucial to human medicine are still being used in “unacceptable” quantities on US livestock farms, reports have surfaced that Britain might not permanently commit to recent EU plans to limit preventative antibiotic use on EU farms post-Brexit. Pat Ng

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