Joseph Dumit, PhD, is Director of the program in Science and
Technology Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of
Anthropology at UC Davis. His research focuses on the anthropology of
science, technology, medicine, and media. He is the author of
Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Princeton
University Press, 2004); and the coeditor of Cyborgs & Citadels:
Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies
(with Gary L. Downey; SAR Press, 1997), Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex
to Techno-Tots (with Robbie Davis-Floyd; Routledge, 1998), and
Biomedicine as Culture (with Regula Burri; Routledge, 2007). He was
associate editor of Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry for 10 years, and
before coming to UC Davis, was an Associate Professor at MIT in the
Program in Science, Technology & Society. He’s currently finishing a
book on pharmaceutical marketing and clinical trials called Drugs for
Life.