Joelle Abi-Rached

Trained in medicine, philosophy, and history, Joelle Abi-Rached brings these disciplines to bear on questions of the politics of life and death. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut, with a secondary affiliation in History and Archaeology. She is the Founding Director of the Program on Medical History, Ethics & Politics at AUB’s Faculty of Medicine, and an Associate at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. Her work has appeared in leading journals and international media, and she is a frequent contributor to the Boston Review. Her books include ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (MIT Press 2020); with Nikolas Rose, Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (Princeton University Press 2013); and the forthcoming co-edited volume Lebanon: Anatomy of a Collapse (under contract with Hurst Publishers).