Purbasha Mazumdar is a doctoral candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a former visiting scholar at the King’s College London and the University of Zurich. She is an anthropologist of science and medicine who is especially fascinated by the contemporary practices of medicine within and beyond the bounds of the hospital. Her doctoral research, tentatively titled “The Hospital After Infection”, takes the global health crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance as a thrust to investigate the life of hospital infections in a tertiary care facility in Southern India.

She has recently published Of Promiscuous Plasmids and Itinerant Patients: How Resistance Became a Global Health Crisis (Somatosphere) and Of Ethnographic (Mis)Translations on a Ward (Medical Anthropology Theory).

For more information, see Purbasha’s institutional profile page.

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