Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand
When new epidemics hit us, calls for infrastructural development are renewed. More investment in hospital facilities, medical staff and the
Bo Kyeong Seo
Bo Kyeong Seo is an anthropologist working on biomedical infrastructure, health inequalities, and experiences of dispossession. Over the last five years she has been conducting research in Thailand and South Korea focusing on poor and marginalized people’s struggle to access healthcare in the context of transnational migration and stigmatization. Her work is published in the "Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, Medical Anthropology" and "Medical Anthropology Quarterly". She is currently completing an ethnographic project on chronic kidney failure in Thailand, co-funded by the Marie Curie Program of the European Commission and the German Research Foundation.