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Bio
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; M.A. Anthropology & M.Arch., University of California, Berkeley; B.S. Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Selected Publications
- Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society, American Anthropological Association, 2003
- New Millenium Book Award, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2006
- The Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems, Royal Anthropological Institute, 2014
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices, Edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, Arthur Kleinman (Duke University Press, 2006).
When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials And The Global Search For Human Subject (Princeton University Press, 2009).
- Diana Forsythe Prize, Honorable Mention, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC), 2014
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health, Edited by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna (Princeton University Press, 2013).
Selected Publications
Risks of Citizenship and Fault Lines of Survival
Read the new introduction to the 2013 edition of Life Exposed
Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health
Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations
Chernobyl's Survivors: Paralyzed by Fatalism or Overlooked by Science?
Read an interview with Dr. Adriana Petryna about When Experiments Travel
Read an interview with Dr. Adriana Petryna about Chernobyl and the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident
Recently Taught Courses
Undergraduate:
Cultures of Science and Technology; Local Biologies: Interactions between Biological and Cultural Systems; Pharmaceuticals and Global Health; Global Health; Anthropology of the Environment
Graduate:
Advanced Topics in Science and Technology; Theory in Contemporary Ethnography; Cultures of Medicine: Care at the Limits of Life and Death; Rethinking Healing; Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Culture and Society; Formations of the Public
Courses Taught
Courses Taught:
ANTH260 Cultures of Science and Technology
ANTH238 Introduction to Medical Anthropology
ANTH554 Truth, Politics, Ethics: Anthropological Cases
ANTH617 Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Culture and Society
ANTH273 Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
ANTH429 Anthropology of the Environment
Affiliations
Anthropology Department Faculty; Faculty Associate, History and Sociology of Science; Associate Member, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Faculty Advisor, The Lauder Institute; Member, Graduate Group in International Studies