João Biehl

E-Mail: jbiehl@princeton.edu

Associate Professor in Anthropology. Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Interests: medical anthropology, social studies of science and technology, Latin American societies.

Biographical Sketch

João Biehls primary research and teaching interests are in medical anthropology, the social studies of science and technology, and Latin American societies. His current research projects examine the widespread use of psychopharmaceuticals in urban poor households in Brazil, the distribution and adherence to antiretroviral drug-treatments in resource-poor settings, and how the environment and life histories influence pathogenic gene expression. He is the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press 2005). In progress is a book on the politics and ethics of the control of AIDS in Brazil. Biehl holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Union. He was a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1998-2000); a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002-03); and a visiting professor at the LEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2004).

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