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 a flourishing life. My books include the following:

Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
(Princeton University Press, 1996)
Doctors for Democracy: The Role of Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution
(Cambridge University Press 1998)
Sex In Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective
(with Pigg, Duke University Press 2005)
Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
(with Craig, Schrempf, Berghahn Press 2010)
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
(Duke University Press 2014)
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health
(Duke University Press, 2017)
What's Making Our Children Sick?
(with Perro, Chelsea Green Publishers, 2018)
Speculative Live, Chemical Harm: A GE Food Story
(under review Duke University Press)
Preoccupied: Life Under Surveillance in Tibet
(in progress)