George Kirkham
@kirkham.bsky.social
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PhD researcher at Oxford Geography interested in snakebites and the politics of global health https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/research/gkirkham.html
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Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.
Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties
Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...
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"Despite each bodymap being unique, there are recurring motifs, such as shadows. “Participants use them in the sense that they are only a shadow of what they were before and that they feel left behind. The world has moved on, but they still live in the pandemic.”

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‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid
People with post-infectious diseases sometimes struggle to communicate the debilitating impact of their conditions. But a new technique can help them explain visually
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