| A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk) : Disaster and the Politics of Intervention Andrew Lakoff is associate professor of anthropology, sociology and communication at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry , and coeditor, with Stephen J. Collier, of Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question . His current research concerns the intersection between global health and national security in the development of approaches to new biological and environmental threats. |