João Biehl
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Book Chapters

  • “From Global Health to Planetary and Micro Global Health: Theorising Global Health’s Present Remodeling and Scaling” (with Yi-Ching Ong). In Handbook on the Politics of Global Public Health edited by Richard G. Parker and Jonathan Garcia. New York: Routledge, 2019, pp. 63-78. pdf
  • “Foreword: Unfinished” (João Biehl and Peter Locke). In Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, pp.ix-xiii. pdf
  • “Ethnographic Sensorium” (João Biehl and Peter Locke). In Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, pp.1-38. pdf
  • “The Anthropology of Becoming” (João Biehl and Peter Locke). In Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, pp.41-89. pdf
  • “Hereafter.” In Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, pp.278-291. pdf
  • “Ethnography Prosecuted: Facing the Fabulation of Power” In If Truth Be Told. The Politics of Public Ethnography edited by Didier Fassin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, pp. 261-286. pdf
  • “Prefácio: O Mundo dos Mucker.” In A Religião de Jacobina by Martin N. Dreher. São Leopoldo: Oikos, 2017, pp. 9-11. pdf
  • “The Juridical Hospital.” In Living and Dying in the Contemporary World edited by Veena Das and Clara Han. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, pp. 251-269. pdf
  • “The Juridical hospital: claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts.” In The Clinic and the Court: Law, Medicine and Anthropology edited by Ian Harper, Tobias Kelly, and Akshay Khanna. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015,pp. 163-196.pdf
  • “Ethnography in the Way of Theory.” In The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy edited by Veena Das, Michael D. Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014, pp. 94-118.pdf
  • “The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts.” In Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014, pp. 349-372.pdf
  • “Patient Value.” In Cash on the Table: Markets, Values, and Moral Economies edited by Edward F. Fischer. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2014, pp. 67-90.pdf
  • “Critical Global Health” (with Adriana Petryna). In When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health edited by João Biehl and Adriana Petryna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 1-20.pdf
  • “Legal Remedies: Therapeutic Markets and the Judicialization of the Right to Health.” In When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health edited by Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna. Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 325-346.pdf
  • “Care and Disregard.” In A Companion to Moral Anthropology edited by Didier Fassin. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp.242-263.pdf
  • “When People Come First: Beyond Technical and Theoretical Quick Fixes in Global Health.” In Global Political Ecology edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts. London: Routledge, 2011. pp.100-130.pdf
  • “CATKINE … Asylum, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Pharmacist, I and the Cure: Pharmaceutical Subjectivity in the Global South.” In Pharmaceutical Self: The Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology edited by Janis Jenkins. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2011. pp.67-96.pdf
  • “Human Pharmakon: The Anthropology of Technological Lives.” In In Search of Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Personhood edited by J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen and Erik P. Wiebe. Grand Rapids. MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2011, pp. 273-299. pdf
  • “‘Medication Is Me Now’: Human Values and Political Life in the Wake of Global AIDS Treatment.” In In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care edited by Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, pp.151-189.pdf
  • “Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities edited by Byron Good, Michael M.J. Fischer, Sarah Willen, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp.213-231 pdf
  • “The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health.” In Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (second edition) edited by Robert A. Hahn and Marcia Inhorn. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp.480-511. pdf
  • “The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence.” In Postcolonial Disorders edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra T. Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron Good. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, pp.279-308. pdf
  • “A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment.” In Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations edited by Biehl, Good, Kleinman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, pp.397-421.pdf
  • “Pharmaceutical Governance.” In Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006, pp.206-239. pdf
  • “Technologies of Invisibility: The Politics of Life and Social Inequality.” In Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics, edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda. London: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 248-271. pdf
  • “Ciência, Tecnologia e Saúde Mental” (“Science, Technology and Mental Health”). In Tecnologias do Corpo: Uma Anthropologia das Medicinas no Brasil (“Technologies of the Body: An Anthropology of Medical Practices in Brazil”), edited by Annette Leibing. Rio de Janeiro: Nau Editora, 2003, pp.19-35. pdf
  • “O Fim do Corpo: Comércio de Órgãos para Transplantes Cirúrgicos” (with Nancy Scheper-Hughes). (“The End of the Body: The Commerce of Organs for Surgical Transplantation”). In Políticas do Corpo e o Curso da Vida, edited by Guita Debert and Donna Goldstein. São Paulo: Sumaré, 2000, pp.49-81. pdf
  • “A Guerra dos Imigrantes: O Espírito Alemão e o Estranho Mucker no Sul do Brasil.” (“The War of the Immigrants: The German Spirit and the Uncanny Mucker in Southern Brazil”). In Colonização e Psicanálise, edited by Edson L.A. de Sousa. Porto Alegre: Artes e Ofícios, 1999, pp.148-168. pdf
  • “Photography in the Field of the Unconscious.” Torben Eskerod. Ansigter [Faces]. Copenhagen: Rhodos, 1997. (Introduction to Eskerod’s photographic book, English and Danish).pdf
  • “Uma Tribo Que Pensa e Negocia em Alemão.” (“A Tribe That Thinks and Trades in German”). In Nós, os Teuto-Gaúchos, edited by René Gertz and Luiz A. Fischer. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS, 1996. pdf
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