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Adriana Petryna: Wellcome Medal

Adriana PetrynaAdriana Petryna, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Anthropology, received the biennial Wellcome Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland for “a body of published work which makes, as a whole, a significant contribution to research in anthropology as applied to medical problems.”

Dr. Petryna specializes in the social and political dimensions of science and medicine in the United States and Eastern Europe, focusing particularly on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and on clinical research and pharmaceutical globalization. She is the author of When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects and of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, which won the New Millennium Book Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology and the Sharon Stephens First Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society. She coedited When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health with Joao Biehl and Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices with Andrew Lakoff and Arthur Kleinman.

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