Joseph Dumit

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Joseph Dumit is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Cruz, Rice University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis

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#1726

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#2239

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Cultural Anthropology

#101

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#129

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Joseph Dumit's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Patrick Dumit is an American cultural anthropologist and science and technology studies scholar. He is a professor of anthropology and science & technology studies at the University of California, Davis, where he was formerly the director of the Institute for Social Sciences and Science and Technology Studies. He received his BA from Rice University and his Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His 2004 book, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity, received the Diana Forsythe Prize from the American Anthropological Association in 2005 and the Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science in 2006.

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Joseph Dumit's Published Works

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Illnesses you have to fight to get: facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses. (2006) (410)
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health (2012) (363)
Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (2004) (247)
Drugs for life. (2002) (181)
Cyborg babies : from techno-sex to techno-tots (1998) (160)
Is It Me or My Brain? Depression and Neuroscientific Facts (2003) (121)
Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010) (101)
Cyborgs & citadels : anthropological interventions in emerging sciences and technologies (1997) (100)
Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time (2014) (71)
Operationalizing a One Health approach to global health challenges. (2013) (69)
Haptics: Haptic Creativity and the Mid-Embodiments of Experimental Life (2011) (65)
Objective Brains, Prejudicial Images (1999) (62)
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: When explanations rest: “good-enough” brain science and the new socio-medical disorders (2000) (57)
Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life (2007) (47)
Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The_BioMarx_Experiment (2012) (42)
Notes Toward Critical Ethnographic Scores: Anthropology and Improvisation Training in a Breached World (2020) (18)
The depsychiatrisation of mental illness (2005) (17)
Picturing Personhood (2021) (17)
Critically Producing Brain Images of Mind (2011) (17)
Informated Health And Ethical Identity Management (2006) (15)
The Infernal Alternatives of Corporate Pharmaceutical Research: Abandoning Psychiatry (2018) (14)
“Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby. We’ll Work Out Which One’s Your Mama!” (2013) (11)
How (Not) to Do Things with Brain Images (2014) (10)
The Fetus as Intruder: Mother’s Bodies and Medical Metaphors (2013) (8)
Inter-pill-ation and the instrumentalization of compliance (2010) (8)
“Come on, people . . . we *are* the aliens. We seem to be suffering from Host-Planet Rejection Syndrome”: Liminal Illnesses, Structural Damnation, and Social Creativity (2005) (7)
Art, design and performance (2017) (7)
Plastic neuroscience: studying what the brain cares about (2014) (6)
Snapchat streaks: How adolescents metagame gamification in social media (2019) (5)
Plastic Diagrams:: Circuits in the Brain and How They Got There (2016) (4)
Game Design as STS Research (2017) (4)
Comparison of three forms of teaching - a prospective randomized pilot trial for the enhancement of adherence. (2012) (3)
Shared Diminished Reality: A New VR Framework for the Study of Embodied Intersubjectivity (2021) (2)
Ludwik Fleck, Edmund Husserl: On the Historicity of Scientific Knowledge (2010) (2)
Geeks and Recursive Publics (2008) (2)
Visions of Illness: An Endography of Real‐Time Medical Imaging by Maud Rastake (2009) (1)
Sharing Perspectives: Inviting Playful Curiosity Into Museum Spaces Through a Performative Score (2022) (1)
The other ninety per cent (2018) (1)
Georges Canguilhem: Epistemological History (2010) (1)
Curves to Bodies (2014) (1)
Drugs for Life (2020) (1)
Tobacco Mosaic Virus: Virus Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes for Biochemistry and Biology, 1937-45 (2010) (1)
Indeterminate lives, demands, relations: Emergent bioscapes (2007) (1)
Mass Health: Illness Is a Line You Cross (2012) (1)
Performing Networks at Direct-Action Protests (2008) (1)
The Economy of the Scribble (2010) (1)
Substance as Method (Shaking Up Your Practice) (2021) (1)
Responding to Facts (2012) (0)
Technoculture: Another, More Material, Name for Postmodern Culture? (1992) (0)
The Liquid Scintillation Counter: Traces of Radioactivity (2010) (0)
God Made the World and the Dutch Made Holland (2009) (0)
Cultural and technological issues and solutions for geodynamics software citation (2014) (0)
Born to Be Wired (1999) (0)
Another World in This World (2020) (0)
Citizen Neuroethics (2006) (0)
The Social and Clinical Production of Ordinariness (2009) (0)
Genetics and the Organization of Genetic Practice in the Netherlands (2009) (0)
Bovine Abominations: Contesting Genetic Technologies (2009) (0)
Grassroots Mobilization and Shifting Alliances (2008) (0)
Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Space (2008) (0)
8. Plastic Diagrams: Circuits in the Brain and How They Got There (2020) (0)
Technologies of emotions (2003) (0)
Reuse, Modification, and the Nonexistence of Norms (2008) (0)
Pharmaceutical Witnessing and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (2012) (0)
The Seattle Effect (2008) (0)
Personhood and Measuring the Figure of Old Age: The Geoid as Transitional Object (2009) (0)
Ordinary Genomes in a Globalizing World (2009) (0)
Animal Science and Management Animal Science and Management the Major Program Anthropology the Major Program (0)
The End Of An Era (2007) (0)
[Re]moving Bodies – A Shared Diminished Reality Installation for Exploring Relational Movement (2021) (0)
Anti-Corporate Globalization Soldiers in Barcelona (2008) (0)
Gaston Bachelard: The Concept of “Phenomenotechnique” (2010) (0)
8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities (2019) (0)
Protestant Reformers, Polymaths, Transhumanists (2008) (0)
STS.066 Brains and Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters, Fall 2002 (2002) (0)
1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry (2020) (0)
Spaces of Terror: Violence and Repression in Genoa (2008) (0)
Chapter 4: Lagging Realities (2020) (0)
Having to Grow Medicine (2012) (0)
Equilibrándose: Danzar con Conceptos como Investigación (2019) (0)
The Concept of Information: The Writings of François Jacob (2010) (0)
“If We Succeed, We Will Disappear” (2008) (0)
STS.062J / 21A.344J Drugs, Politics, and Culture, Spring 2003 (2003) (0)
Anthropology the Major Program (0)
Knowing Your Numbers: Pharmaceutical Lifestyles (2012) (0)
Sharing Source Code (2008) (0)
Substance as Method (2021) (0)
Moving the Lines: Deciding on Thresholds (2012) (0)
May the Resistance Be as Transnational as Capital (2008) (0)
Backward and Beautiful: Calvinism, Chromosomes, and the Production of Genetic Knowledge (2009) (0)
The Rise of Informational Utopics (2008) (0)
Four Cultural Genealogies (or Haplotype Genealogical Tests) for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology (2009) (0)
Software Attribution for Geoscience Applications in the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (2015) (0)
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World:God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World. (1997) (0)
The Concept of the Gene: Molecular Biological Perspectives (2010) (0)
UC Berkeley Previously Published Works Title (2015) (0)

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