Sarah Hodges ([email protected])
Sarah uses ethnography and historical records to ask: what are the everyday lives of public health measures?
To answer this question, she moves beyond medical anthropologists’ and historians’ conventional sites of inquiry: the clinic, the lab, the classroom, or the regulator’s office. Instead, Sarah’s field sites have included dumpsters behind hospitals, pharmaceutical distributors’ warehouse parking lots, radical newspaper archives, and hotel lobbies.
Sarah has honed her approach through a series of major projects:
• about the radical political life of women’s contraceptives in India under colonial rule
• the economic afterlives of used, discarded medical plastics
• the political economies of Indian pharmaceuticals at home and abroad.
In one way or another, all her research is empirically rooted in Tamil-speaking south India.