João Biehl

João Biehl

João Biehl is an anthropologist currently based at Princeton University. He specializes in medical anthropology and is the winner of the Rudolph Virchow Award given by the Society for Medical Anthropology. His interests include medical anthropology, social studies of science and technology, psychological anthropology, globalization and development, Latin American societies.

Career

João Biehl earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. He also earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley in 1996 in Religion/Interdisciplinary Studies. Biehl was a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1998-2000); a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002-03 and 2005-06); and a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris (2004). He teaches medical anthropology and courses on science, technology and society, cultural globalization, and social theory. Professor Biehl held the Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Fellowship (2004-2006) and received the Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.

He is currently writing the history of a fratricidal war—the Mucker war—that took place among German immigrants in 1874 in southern Brazil. His current ethnographic research focuses on domestic crimes and the monetarization of kinship ties in that region.

Biography

Biehl has a son Andre Biehl with his partner Adriana Petryna, also an anthropologist.

Publications

*"Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment" (University of California Press 2005)
*"Pharmaceutical Governance." In Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices", edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman (Duke University Press, 2006, pp.206-239)
*"Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival" (Princeton University Press 2007)

He is also the co-editor of "Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations" (University of California Press 2007).

His work has been published in American Ethnologist; Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry; Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies; Public Culture; and Social Text.

External links

*Biehl with one of his interlocutors [http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S17/06/97S70/index.xml?section=featured]


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