Andrew Lakoff is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at UC San Diego, and is a Program Officer at the Social Science Research Council. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry and co-editor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. His current research concerns the intersection of global health and national security expertise around the problem of biological preparedness. With Stephen Collier, he is also investigating the genealogy of vital systems security in the 20th century U.S.
COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY
The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of vital systems such as energy, transportation, communication and health is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.
