Antimicrobial Resistance, Urban Life in Thailand and Anthropological Research

The Antimicrobials In Society (AMIS) project investigated the ways in which antibiotics have become entwined in peoples’ lives. This video, from the AMIS Thailand Mahidol University team, presents insights from the project’s urban ethnography. It portrays the complexity of daily life contexts of a peri-urban area of central Thailand and how ethnographic fieldwork could be operated. Ethnographic accounts of dwellers, bedridden patients and health care systems are depicted together with fieldwork practices. The video illustrates the problems that antibiotics have become a solution to in this urban setting. Script translation: Nutcha Charoenboon, Production: Black Box Production. The video is available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/l_ShNt1Kxak