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• Betancourt, Mingyuan Zhang (2026). “Making One’s Own Doctor”: Épicerie medicine and the Informal Circulation of Antibiotics in Northern Madagascar. Medical Anthropology. ISSN 0145-9740. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2656931. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  People in Madagascar often resort to small grocery kiosks (épicerie) for various Western medicines including antibiotics – they call the practice “magnano docteur tegna” (“making one’s own doctor”). Creating an unregulated antibiotic market, the practice is detrimental to the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This article explores the informal circulation of antibiotics in northern Madagascar and the local patterns of antibiotic use. I argue that the lack of healthcare coverage is the key reason for improvised health solutions. There is a discrepancy between the long-term threat of AMR and the most urgent need of people living in precarity.

• Kirchhelle, Claas; Portillo, Mirza Y. Alas; Davis, Mark D.M.; Doron, Assa; Dreser, Anahí & Fortané, Nicolas [Vis alle 16 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2026). (Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance. Lancet Microbe. 7(3). doi: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101315. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global health threat. Despite increasing international attention, AMR governance has often neglected social and equity dimensions, and there is a crucial need to synthesise evidence from social sciences and humanities scholarship to devise more people-centred approaches. In this Personal View, we report a qualitative stocktake of the intended and unintended consequences of the most recent phase of global AMR governance that started around the year 2000 and reached a high point with the 2015 Global Action Plan (GAP) on AMR. Our interdisciplinary analysis was guided by the five key objectives of current AMR governance, as organised in the 2015 GAP, to reduce AMR through awareness, surveillance, infection reduction, antimicrobial use optimisation, and research and innovation. The resulting assessment indicated mixed outcomes. Although the past decade witnessed unprecedented AMR-related action and investment, empirical studies highlight negative consequences of the decontextualised export of high-income governance frameworks and the neglect of upstream antibiotic-sensitive reforms of production, care, and innovation systems. Not embedding AMR within more general developmental and environmental challenges has also undermined local buy-in and contributed to the siloed status of AMR policies. For the next GAP, we recommend foregrounding equitable interventions; adopting a bottom-up, integrated perspective to incorporate local realities and solutions; and creating robust social sciences and humanities feedback loops for global AMR frameworks.

• Skender, Belma & Zhang, Mingyuan (2024). From local issue to global challenge: a brief overview of antibiotic shortages since the 1970s. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11(1). doi: 10.1057/s41599-024-03759-y. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Antibiotic shortages have become a global issue, affecting countries worldwide. These shortages often lead to the overuse of specialized or emergency-reserve antibiotics, which impacts the treatment and increases the risk of drug resistance, making infections harder to treat over time. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the severity of these shortages, showing they are neither rare nor isolated but rather common and widespread. This short commentary explores two main questions: firstly, how has antibiotic shortage developed into a serious concern for countries like the United States and Europe, once leaders in antibiotic production; and secondly, how has antibiotic shortage grown from localized and isolated issues into the global concern, affecting countries around the world? By employing historical analysis, this commentary aims to underscore the growing but overlooked issue, pointing to a broad and deeply rooted problem of the pharmaceutical production landscape.

• Zhang, Mingyuan (2023). Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar. American Anthropologist. ISSN 0002-7294. 125(1), s. 100–111. doi: 10.1111/aman.13811. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2023). In Shortage Understanding Global Antibiotic Supply Chains Through Pharmaceutical Trade Fairs. Anthropologica. ISSN 0003-5459. 65(1). doi: 10.18357/anthropologica65120232605. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan & Bjerke, Lise (2023). Antibiotics “dumped”: Negotiating Pharmaceutical Identities, Properties, and Interests in China–India Trade Disputes. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. ISSN 0745-5194. 37(2), s. 148–163. doi: 10.1111/maq.12757. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract China and India have become major producers of antibiotics, and the world has become highly dependent on them. Since 2000, the competition among Chinese and Indian manufacturers on key antibiotic ingredients has become increasingly intense in a series of trade disputes involving anti‐dumping investigations. Analyzing these trade disputes, we find that they provide a space of communication and contestation where seemingly objective facts about pharmaceutical ingredients are transformed into debatable subjects, which are used and sometimes manipulated by stakeholders of conflicting interests. The disputes reveal entangled configurations and multilayered stakes in the China–India pharmaceutical nexus that often defy polarized national interests. Stakeholders must juggle multiple factors, including public health interests, nationalist sentiments, and corporate profit, in negotiating the national identities and the physical and chemical properties of “standard” pharmaceutical ingredients. The disputes also highlight the coexistence of collaboration and competition among Chinese and Indian stakeholders in global pharmaceutical supply chains. [antibiotics, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), pharmaceutical nexus, dumping, trade disputes, China–India]

• Zhang, Mingyuan (2022). Kung Fu vs. Radio Calisthenics: The Confucius Institute and Chinese Culture Education in Madagascar. I Tudoroiu, Theodor & Kuteleva, Anna (Red.), China in the Global South: Impact and Perceptions. Springer Nature. ISSN 9789811913440. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-1344-0_6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Guccini, Federicia & Zhang, Mingyuan (2021). 'Being Chinese' in Mauritius and Madagascar: Comparing Chinese diasporic communities in the western Indian Ocean. Journal of Third World Studies. ISSN 8755-3449. doi: 10.26443/jiows.v4i2.79. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2021). Writing against “Mask Culture”: Orientalism and COVID-19 Responses in the West. Anthropologica. ISSN 0003-5459. doi: 10.18357/anthropologica6312021327. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2015). Powers of the Dead: Struggles over Paper Money Burning in Urban China. The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 2561-7818. doi: 10.5206/uwoja.v23i1.8955. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Betancourt, Mingyuan Zhang (2025). (Un)intended Consequences of Two Decades of AMR Interventions: A Global Antibiotic Supply Chain Perspective from China. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2024). Magnano Docteur Tegna: épicerie medicine and the informal circulation of antibiotics in northern Madagascar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Betancourt, Mingyuan Zhang (2024). Magnano Docteur Tegna: épicerie medicine and the informal circulation of antibiotics in northern Madagascar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Betancourt, Mingyuan Zhang (2024). The role of China in today's global antibiotic manufacturing landscape and the impact on shortages. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjerke, Lise & Zhang, Mingyuan (2023). Sterk konkurranse mellom produsenter av antibiotika i India og Kina. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjerke, Lise & Zhang, Mingyuan (2023). Fierce competition between manufacturers of antibiotics in China and India. [Internet]. UiO.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2023). Antimicrobial Resistance, Global Antibiotic Supply Chain, and Anthropology. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Fjeld, Heidi E & Zhang, Mingyuan (2022). Antibiotic Trajectories across time and space: Introduction to the panel. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2022). The Digital Frontier of Antibiotics: Tracing Pharmaceuticals through Online Trade Fairs. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2022). Is Antimicrobial Resistance Really a Crisis: Urgency, Temporality, and the Ordinary. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Zhang, Mingyuan (2022). Antibiotics ‘Dumped’: Negotiating Pharmaceutical Identities, Properties, and Interests in China-India Trade Disputes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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