STS
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
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Joseph Dumit
| Email |
jpdumit@ucdavis.edu |
| website |
http://web.mit.edu/dumit/www/homestart.html |
Professor Dumit received his B.A. from Rice University (Anthropology and Philosophy, 1989) and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (History of Consciousness, 1995). He was an NIMH Research Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (1995-1997), and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dibner Institute (1997-1998). He is the co-editor of Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies with Gary Lee Downey (1997), and Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots with Robbie Davis-Floyd (1998). He is the associate editor of the journal Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry. Professor Dumit is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Princeton University Press). Professor Dumit is on leave for the 2005-2006 academic year, and currently Director of Science and Technology Studies at UCDavis.