Dr. Marsha Rosengarten

Biography

Marsha Rosengarten is a Visiting Professor at King's College London and an Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also holds honorary professorships at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Australia, and the Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney, Australia. Marsha has authored significant works including 'HIV Interventions: Biomedicine Traffic Information Flesh' published by the University of Washington Press, and co-authored 'Innovation in Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence, Expectation in HIV' with Mike Michael, published by Palgrave. Additionally, she contributed to 'Speculative Research: Lure of Possible Futures' published by Routledge. With over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, her research spans the fields of biomedicine, immunology, health governance, and communicable infections. She examines drug use and speculative pragmatic philosophy, drawing inspiration from the process philosophy of A.N. Whitehead and Henri Bergson. Currently, she is collaborating with Dr. Nele Jensen at King's and Professor Kari Lancaster and Professor Monica Greco at the University of Bath on a collection titled 'Biomedicine’s Incongruities', while also working on a monograph titled 'The Time Infection: Biomedicine, Speculative Thought and Novelty.' Marsha is a member of a new initiative to establish an independent Institute of Contemporary Critical Thought.

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