Articles

• “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.
• “Cultura e Poder no Tempo dos Mucker.” (“Culture and Power In the Time of the Mucker”). Jahrbuch 2002 Institut Martius-Staden, 49:162-181.
• “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.