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Taylor Bell

Position: Anthropology News SMA Contributing Co-Editor
Categories: Ex-Officio Members and Staff

Taylor Bell is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Her research weaves together medical anthropology, economic anthropology, science and technology studies and disability studies to better understand the shifting role of pharmacies as sites of health seeking and providing. She is currently finishing her dissertation which is based on three years of observation in Greek neighborhood pharmacies. Over a decade of austerity measures reshaped Greece’s universal healthcare system, triggering drastic pharmaceutical shortages and dwindling access to clinical care for many. Her dissertation asks: how does the receding welfare state reverberate in neighborhood pharmacies?