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Diagnostics for Development by Alice Street
Having been left in the long grass for several years while donors, activists, governments and public health experts focused on the question of access to vital medicines, the issue of diagnosis is...
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Rethinking Infrastructures for Global Health: A View from West Africa and...
“Without staff, stuff, space and systems, nothing can be done”. Paul Farmer’s reflections on his recent trip to Liberia in The London Review of Books reiterated in stark terms what health experts...
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Ian Harper’s Development and Public Health in the Himalaya by Alice Street
Ian Harper, Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Development at the University of Edinburgh, talks to Alice Street about his book Development and Public Health in the Himalaya: Reflections on...
View ArticleWho Cares? A Discussion on Care from Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical...
On 11th May 2016 the Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA) at University of Edinburgh, the student group within Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA) held their inaugural event, a...
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The Testing Revolution: Investigating Diagnostic Devices in Global Health by...
Image by Alice Street in collaboration with Jennifer Littlejohn. The origins of laboratory medicine are often traced to the establishment of a small clinical laboratory in Guy’s Hospital, London, in...
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ReEBOV: Developing an Ebola rapid diagnostic test at research ground zero by...
Expired ReEBOV tests in a hospital laboratory in Sierra Leone. Photograph by Ann Kelly In June 2015, as Sierra Leone and Guinea was experiencing new surges in clusters of Ebola virus cases, Nature...
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The limits of medical heroism: reflections on Getting to Zero by Alice Street
Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline By Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson Zed Books, 2018. 352 pages. It is midnight and my five-month-old son, who has been sick with diarrhea...
View ArticleWhat are we talking about when we talk about care? Reflections on the discussion
The fantastic papers in this symposium cover a wide diversity of topics, from the fallout of dementia on kinship relationships, to exchanges with Gods, to the self-administering of make-up, to medical...
View ArticleCounting coronavirus: delivering diagnostic certainty in a global emergency
Why diagnostic tests are at the heart of the global coronavirus response and why they fail to provide certainty On 12 February 2020, the number of new cases of coronavirus in Hubei Province, China,...
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