Andrew Lakoff, Associate Professor

Ph.D. - UC Berkeley, 2000

Andrew Lakoff

Areas of Specialization: Science and Technology Studies, Globalization, Social Theory, Ethnography, History of the Human Sciences

Email Address: alakoff@ucsd.edu
Phone number: 858-534-3918
Office location: 465 Social Science Building

Office Hours

Biography:

Andrew Lakoff received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 2000-2002. His main areas of interest include science and technology studies, biomedicine, social theory, and globalization processes. Lakoff’s first book, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge, 2005), examines the role of the global circulation of pharmaceuticals in the spread of biological models of human behavior; it is based on research conducted in Argentina, France and the United States. He has also co-edited a book entitled Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practice (Duke, 2006), and has published articles on visual technology and the behavioral sciences, on the history of attention deficit disorder, and on the placebo effect. Lakoff’s current research concerns global health and biosecurity, and his most recent book publication is the co-edited volume, Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (Columbia University Press, 2008).

Classes to be taught in 2008/09:

Professor Lakoff will be on leave during 2008/09.

Selected Publications:

Books

Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. Co-edited with Stephen J. Collier. New York: Columbia University Press (2008)

"Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices" Co-edited with Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman. Duke University Press, (2006).

"Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry" Cambridge University Press, (2005)

Articles

"The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared," Cultural Anthropology 23:3 (2008)

"Distributed Preparedness: The Spatial Logic of Domestic Security in the United States" (with Stephen J. Collier), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26:1 (2008)

"The Right Patients for the Drug: Managing the Placebo Effect in Antidepressant Trials," BioSocieties 2: 1 (2007)

"Preparing for the Next Emergency," Public Culture 19: 2 (2007)

"The Simulation of Madness: BuenosAires, 1903," Critical Inquiry: 31:4 (2005).

"Biosecurity: Proposal for an Anthropology of the Contemporary," in Anthropology Today 20:5 (Oct. 2004). Co-authored with Stephen Collier and Paul Rabinow.

"Ethics and theAnthropology of Modern Reason," in Anthropological Theory, 4:3 (September 2004). Co-authored with Stephen Collier.

"The Private Life of Numbers: Audit firms and the Government of Expertise in Post-Welfare Argentina ," in Global Assemblages: Governmentality, Technology, Ethics , ed. Stephen Collier and Aihwa Ong. New York : Blackwell, 2004.

"The Anxieties of Globalization: Antidepressant Sales and Economic Crisis in Argentina," Social Studies of Science, 34, 2004.

"The Lacan Ward: Pharmacology and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires," Social Analysis, 47:2, 2003.

"The Mousetrap: Managing the Placebo Effect in Antidepressant Development Trials," in Molecular Interventions, 2:2, May 2002.

"Adaptive Will: The Evolution of Attention Deficit Disorder," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences , 36 (2), Spring 2000.

"Freezing Time: Margaret Mead’s Diagnostic Photography," in Visual Anthropology Review , 12 (1), Spring 1996.