Social Science Research Council

Program Officer

lakoff@ssrc.org
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Andrew Lakoff is an assistant professor of sociology and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, and is currently serving as program officer for the SSRC project, "Preparedness, Vital Systems and Security." He received a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the department of social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Lakoff's research involves the social analysis of systems of expertise. His recent book, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (2005), examines epistemological debates around the source of mental disorder. He is also co-editor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Knowledge, Practices (2006), and has published articles on the history of the behavioral sciences, on methodology in the interpretive social sciences, and on the concepts of risk and security. His current work focuses on the development of techniques of preparedness among security experts in the United States.