João Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University

Professor Biehl is the co-author of Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press, 2005) and is currently working on the book, The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS and citizenship in Brazil, a continuation of previous work on medical anthropology and the cultures of science and technology. He has published articles on economic globalization, state formations and citizenship, culture and mental health, and social theory and ethics.

Online articles:

• "The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil." In Social Text 80. Vol. 22, #3: 105:132. 2004.
• "Biotechnology and the new politics of life and death in Brazil: the AIDS model." In Bioethics. 2002 Spring, 5:59-74.
• "Technology and effect: HIV/AIDS testing in Brazil." In Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry. 2001, March; 25(1):87-129.