Andrew Lakoff is Associate Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and is a program officer at the SSRC. He received a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the department of social medicine at Harvard. His recent book, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge, 2005), examines epistemological and political debates around mental disorder provoked by new developments in the life sciences. He is also co-editor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Knowledge, Practices (Duke, 2006), and has published articles on the history of the behavioral sciences and on knowledge practices among security experts. With Stephen J. Collier, he is co-editing the forthcoming Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (Columbia, 2008).