Joelle Abi-Rached(Is this your profile?)

Joelle is a Lecturer in History of Science at Harvard University as well as an Associate Researcher at Sciences Po (Médialab).Her research focuses on the politics of life, health, and wealth with a particular interest in the politics of health as it plays out in low and middle-income countries as well as in the Middle East. Her interests and perspective lie at the intersection of history, philosophy, ethics, medicine, and policy.Her recent book ‘Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (MIT Press, 2020) reconstructs the history of one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the modern Middle East and through it explores the complex relationships between pathology and modernity. The book received the 2019 Jack...