Ryan Whitacre

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PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
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Department of Anthropology
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Advisor(s) Nancy Burke, Ian Whitmarsh
Degrees BA Anthropology, High Honors :: UC Berkeley

Medical Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Francisco

My research concerns human lives and clinical research. I draw from theories in science studies and medical anthropology, read histories of medicine, and track machinations in health policy. I am working toward a dissertation about the development and implementation of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), especially its implications for the future of HIV prevention, bioethics, and intimate relationships. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation.

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