Revisiting Local Biology in the Era of Global Health

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsP. Sean BrothertonP. SEAN BROTHERTON is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. His research and teaching interests are concerned with the critical study of health, medicine, the state, subjectivity, and the body, drawing upon contemporary social theory and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba (2012).Vinh-Kim NguyenVINH-KIM NGUYEN is a practicing physician, Professor of Social Medicine at the University of Montreal, and holds the Chair of Anthropology and Global Health at the Collège d'Études mondiales in Paris. He is the author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS (2010) and, with Margaret Lock, co-author of An Anthropology of Biomedicine (2010).