Pei-Lin Chua is interested in new forms of biomedical personhood in neo-liberal and post-socialist societies. In particular, she seeks to understand psychiatric and neurological disorders as they are inflected culturally, and the mutations. Previously, Pei-Lin studied in Singapore and in the UK.
medical anthropology; East Asia; anthropology of the life sciences; personhood; subjectivity; governmentality
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