Bio
João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Associate at Princeton University. Biehl is also the Co-Director of Princeton’s Global Health Program. He is the author of the award-winning books Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press 2005; updated edition 2013) and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton University Press 2007). He also co-edited the books When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health (Princeton University Press 2013) and Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (University of California Press 2007). Biehl is the co-editor (with Vincanne Adams) of the book series “Critical Global Health” at Duke University Press. Biehl’s present research explores the social impact of large-scale treatment programs in resource-poor settings and the role of the judiciary in administering public health in Brazil. He is the coordinator of a research and teaching partnership between Princeton University and the University of São Paulo centered on global health and the anthropology of health and medicine. Biehl is currently writing the history of a religious war that shattered the German-Brazilian community in 19th century Brazil and is also working on a book titled The Anthropology of Becoming.
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João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Associate at Princeton University. Biehl is also the Co-Director of Princeton’s Global Health Program. He is the author of the award-winning books Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press 2005; updated edition 2013) and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton University Press 2007). He also co-edited the books When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health (Princeton University Press 2013) and Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (University of California Press 2007). Biehl is the co-editor (with Vincanne Adams) of the book series “Critical Global Health” at Duke University Press. Biehl’s present research explores the social impact of large-scale treatment programs in resource-poor settings and the role of the judiciary in administering public health in Brazil. He is the coordinator of a research and teaching partnership between Princeton University and the University of São Paulo centered on global health and the anthropology of health and medicine. Biehl is currently writing the history of a religious war that shattered the German-Brazilian community in 19th century Brazil and is also working on a book titled The Anthropology of Becoming.
[email protected]
[webpage]