Vincanne Adams, PhD
In my capacity as Professor in the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology (with UC Berkeley), I am committed to making a contribution to knowledge and insight about the interface between health and the harm that arises from that which cannot be strictly called biological.
My books include the following:
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas (Princeton 2006)
Doctors for Democracy: The Role of Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution (Cambridge 1998)
Sex In Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective (with Stacy L. Pigg, editors, Duke 2005)
Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds (with Sienna Craig and Mona Schrempf, editors, Berghahn Press 2010)
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Duke 2014)
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Duke University Press, 2017)
What's Making Our Children Sick?(with Michelle Perro, co-authors, Chelsea Green Publishers, 2018)
Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agrochemical on the Move (Duke, 2023)
Arc of Interference: Anthropology for Worlds on Edge (with Joao Biehl, editors, Duke 2023)