BA, Brandeis
PhD, MIT I am a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College, London. My research focuses on biomedicine and culture, theories of race and gender, and ways in which science and medicine are mobilized in social justice projects. I have recently completed my third book manuscript, Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States. This writing has been supported of a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the book is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in 2021. My second book, Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019. Synthesizing Hope draws on research at a small South African pharmaceutical company that was founded with the mission of finding new drugs for TB, HIV, and malaria, and explores how it matters who makes pharmaceutical knowledge and where. My first book, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference, tracks the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and cardiovascular disease in the United States from the founding of cardiology to the controversial approval of BiDil for heart failure in “self-identified black patients.” With the support of the Wellcome Trust and with collaborators Melissa Creary, Vivette Garcia-Deister, Nadine Ehlers, Zimitri Erasmus, and Amade M'charek, I am in the founding stages of a research network on "Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab: 21st Century Mobilizations." More broadly, I am engaged in ongoing research in three areas: feminist theory and the heart; health disparities and citizenship claims; and science by and for the Global South. I serve on the Lead Editorial team of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience and am an Associate Editor of BioSocieties. I also serve on the Editorial Board of Science, Technology ,and Human Values . Recent Publications"Confined to my Flat, Reading An Apartment on Uranus," Lockdown Texts, edited by Des Fitzgerald, BioSocieties 15 (2020): 486-7.
"Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of 'Unintended Consequences'," coauthored with Nassim Parvin, Engaging Science, Technology and Society Vol. 6 (2020): DOI: https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2020.497. Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. How do Black Lives Matter in Teaching, Lab Practices, and Research? Lab Meeting, Co-convened with Deboleena Roy, for the Working Group on Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 3.2(2017). BiDil’s Compensation Relations In Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine, edited by Nadine Ehlers and Leslie Hinkson, 83-104. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. After Big Data Failed: The Enduring Allure of Numbers in the Wake of the 2016 US Election Coauthored with Yanni Loukissas, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 3 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2017.150. Queering Endocrine Disruption In Object Oriented Feminism, edited by Katherine Behar, 183-199. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Resisting Power, Retooling Justice: Promises of Feminist Postcolonial Technosciences Coauthored with Banu Subramaniam, Science, Technology & Human Values, 41.6(November 2016): 951-966. Heart Feminism Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 1.1(September 2015): 30pp. Coronary Artery Disease and the Contours of Pharmaceuticalization Coauthored with David S. Jones, Social Science & Medicine 131 (April 2015): 221–227. On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters: Mass Incarceration, Kidney Donation, and the Biopolitics of Race in the United States Science, Technology, and Human Values, 40.2 (March 2015): 250-271. See CV for full list of publications. Please feel free to email me to request PDFs of articles or chapters. |
