Articles

• “Illness of Time,” In Princeton University Art Museum Magazine, Winter 2020.
• “Right-to-Medicines Litigation and Universal Health Coverage: Institutional Determinants of the Judicialization of Health in Brazil” (with Mariana P. Socal and Joseph J. Amon), Health and Human Rights Journal, 2020, 22:1, 221-235.
• “How to teach anthropology in a pandemic?” (with Onur Günay). Somatosphere, May 25, 2020.
• “The Right to Remedies: On Human Rights Critiques and Peoples’ Recourses” (with Joseph J. Amon). Humanity, Oct. 4, 2019 (Symposium: “The Right to Medicines in an Age of Neoliberalism”). 
• “Judicialization 2.0: Understanding Right-to-Health Litigation in Real Time (with M. P. Socal, V. Gauri, D. Diniz, M. Medeiros, G.Rondon & J. J. Amon). Global Public Health, 2019, 14:2, 190-199.
• “The Books of the Dead Revisited: Mortality and Morbidity in the German Colonies of Southern Brazil, 1850-1880 (with Miqueias Mugge & Ana Maria Goldani). História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, 2018, 25(4):1197-1217.
• “The Postneoliberal Fabulation of Power: On Statecraft, Precarious Infrastructures, and Public Mobilization in Brazil.” American Ethnologist, 2016, 43(3): 437-50.
• “Patient-Citizen-Consumers: The Judicialization of Health and the Metamorphosis of Biopolitics.” Revista Lua Nova, 2016, 98:77-105.
• “On the Heterogeneity and Politics of the Judicialization of Health in Brazil” (with Mariana P. Socal and Joseph J. Amon). Health and Human Rights, 2016, 18(2):269-271.
• “La etnografía en el camino de la teoría.” Etnografías Contemporáneas, 2016, 2(3):226-254. [Spanish translation of “Ethnography in the Way of Theory,” Cultural Anthropology, 2013].
• “The Work of Evidence in Critical Global Health” (with Vincanne Adams). MAT: Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2016, 3(2):123–126.
• “Theorizing Global Health.” MAT: Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2016, 3(2): 127–142.
• “Antropologia entre o inesperado e o inacabado: Entrevista com João Biehl” (with Patrice Schuch). (Anthropology between the Unexpected and the Unfinished: Interview with João Biehl). Horizontes Antropológicos, 2016, 22(46):389-423.
• “The Judicialization of Health and the Quest for State Accountability: Evidence from 1,262 Lawsuits for Access to Medicines in Southern Brazil” (with Mariana P. Socal and Joseph J. Amon). Health and Human Rights, 2016, 18(1): 209-220.

• “The challenging nature of gathering evidence and analyzing the judicialization of health in Brazil” (with Joseph J. Amon, Mariana P. Social, and Adriana Petryna). Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2016, 32(6):e00086315.
• “Tratamentos jurídicos: os mercados terapêuticos e a judicialização do direito à saúde” (with Adriana Petryna). (Juridical Medicines: Therapeutic Markets and Right-to-Health Litigation). História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 2016, 23(1): 173-192.
• “How Can Urban Policies Improve Air Quality and Help Mitigate Global Climate Change: A Systematic Mapping Review” (Anne Dorothée Slovic, Maria Aparecida de Oliveira, João Biehl, and Helena Ribeiro). Journal of Urban Health, 2016, 93(1): 73-95.
• “The Masked Anthropologist” (with Naomi Zucker). HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2015, 5(2):367-374.
• “Peopling Global Health” (with Adriana Petryna). Saúde e Sociedade, 2014, 23(2): 376-389.
• “Fugitive Field” (Commentary). Current Anthropology, 2014, 55(3): 287-288.
• “Ethnography in the Way of Theory.” Cultural Anthropology, 2013, 28(4):573-597.
• “The Judicialization of Biopolitics.” American Ethnologist, 2013, 40 (3): 419-436.
• “The Right to a Nonprojected Future.” Practical Matters, 2013, 6: 1-9.
• “When People Come First” (with Adriana Petryna). World Financial Review, September/October 2013, pp. 21-24. link
• “The Phantasy of Theory and the Missing People” (with Sebastián Ramírez Hernandez). Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2012, 63:125-126.
• “Anthropology of  Transience.”  In  Supervalent  Thought  (Lauren  Berlant’s  research  blog), 2012.
• “Ethnography as Political Critique” (with Ramah McKay). Anthropological Quarterly, 2012, 85 (4): 1211–1230.
• “Between the Court and the Clinic: Lawsuits for Medicines and the Right to Health in Brazil” (with Joseph J. Amon, Mariana P. Socal, and Adriana Petryna). Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, 2012, 14(1):1-17.
• “Bodies of Rights and Therapeutic Markets” (with Adriana Petryna). Social Research, 2011, 78(2):359-386.
• “Having an Idea in Anthropology Today” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, 2011, No. 100. pp.20-24.
• “Antropologia no campo de saúde global” Horizontes Antropológicos (special issue: “Science, Ethics and Power” edited by Claudia Fonseca), 2011, 17(35):257-296.
• “Homo Economicus & Life Markets.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly (special issue: “After Progress” edited by Sharon Kauffman and S.Lochlann Jain), 2011, 25: 278-284.
• “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming” (with Peter Locke). Current Anthropology 51(3):317-351 (with comments and a reply).
• “Judicialisation and the Right to Health in Brazil” (Biehl J, Petryna A, Gertner A, Amon JJ, Picon PD). The Lancet, 2009, 373: 2182-84.
• “Accès du traitement du sida, marches des medicaments et citoyenneté dans le Brésil d’aujourd’hui.” (“AIDS Treatment Access, Drug Markets, and Citizenship in Brazil Today”). Sciences Sociales et Santé, 2009, 27(3): 13-46.
• “Symptom: Subjectivities, Social Ills, Technologies” (with Amy Moran-Thomas). Annual Review of Anthropology, 2009, 38: 267-88.
• “Antropologia do Devir: Psicofármacos – abandono social – desejo.” (“Anthropology of Becoming: Psychopharmaceuticals – Social Abandonment – Desire”). Revista de Antropolopologia [ITALICS], 2008, 51(2):413-449.
• “Drugs for All: The Future of Global AIDS Treatment.” Medical Anthropology, 2008, 27(2)1-7.
• “Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics.” Anthropological Quarterly, 2007, 80(4):1083-1126.
• “Will To Live: AIDS Drugs and Local Economies of Salvation” (a photographic essay with Torben Eskerod). Public Culture, 2006, 18(3):457-472.
• “Saints: Their Immanence and Poetics” (review essay of Robert A. Orsi’s book “Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). In Anthropological Quarterly, 2005, 78(4): 1005-1007.
• “Life of the Mind: The Interface of Psychopharmaceuticals, Domestic Economies, and Social Abandonment.” American Ethnologist, 2004, 31 (4): 475-496.
• “The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil.” Social Text, 2004, 22(3):105-132.
• “Práticas Médicas de Aceitação da Morte na UTI de um Hospital Geral do Nordeste do Brasil” (with Esdras Cabus Moreira). (“Medical Practices and the Acceptance of Death in the Intensive Care Unit of a General Hospital in Northeastern Brazil”). Bioética [a journal of the Brazilian Medical Association], 2004, 12(1): 19-30.
• “Technology and Affect: HIV/AIDS Testing in Brazil” (with Denise Coutinho and Ana Luzia Outeiro). Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2001, 25(1): 87-129.
• “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Social Text, 2001, 19(3): 131-149.
• “Tecnociência e Subjectividade.” Revista da Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 2001, 20:124-132.
• “Jammerthal, the Valley of Lamentation: Kultur, War Trauma and Subjectivity in 19^th Century Brazil.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 1999, 8(2): 171-198.
• “O Estádio Clínico: A Constituição de uma Criança Inválida” (with Adriana Petryna). Revista da Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 1997, 7(13):83-101.