Hard to Reach: Global Health and the Problem of Logistics

Tuesday 3rd May 2016, 12:30-2pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Sherrington Building, Ashton Street, Liverpool L69 3GE

Speaker: Dr. Alice Street (Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh)

Alice Street is senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research examines the material politics of global health, with a focus on Papua New Guinea and South India. This includes research on biomedical work in resource-poor hospitals, the international transfer of managerial technologies, and market-based health solutions for ‘hard to reach populations’. She is the author of Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital (Duke University Press, 2014).