History and Sociology of Science
Professor, Anthropology
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology
334 University Museum
Phone
215-746-0423
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, social studies of science and technology, globalization, state formation and citizenship, Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union, and the United States.
Selected Work
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Princeton University Press, 2002).
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).
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Edited by Joao Biehl & Adriana Petryna
