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I've played a number of Alchemists across the last 2 years playing in PFS and in other adventure paths outside of society play and I've come across a few problems with Alchemists in certain situations.
While I think it's a slightly less common problem that people would imagine I've found myself a number of times sitting around with extracts in hand and having taking the infusion discovery had someone of the oh please god don't cast cure spells on me persuasion.
Is it possible to get Inflicts and spells like Infernal healing added to the Alchemists spell list or is there any specific design point that runs against that sort of change?
As things are it next to rules alchemist out for anything that requires negative energy to heal. Or at least takes away an important utility the class choice provides for any of those characters.
I think alchemist are masters of biology and can manipulate their body using mutagen, extracts and infusion. Transmutation is their key magical school. They also have illusion and a good amount of necromancy, but negative energy isn't their thing in my opinion, the same way druids can cure, but can't inflict - the living world it where their power lives.
When druids and alchemist have different relations with the living world, their magic is both based on transmutation and body alteration. I think using druid as a reference about the inflict spell here is useful.
However, I also see alchemist as experimenter, using their own body to test new extracts and find way to augment or alter further their capacities. According to this, I would allow an undead alchemist to replace any cure spells in his class list by inflict spells,
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I see your point with the Druid spell list there are however for alchemists some discoveries my example here being "Alchemical Zombie" that deals with undead specifically in the class and gives them the ability to animate dead so the class is already in someway augment-able to deal with negative energy.