A Petryna
Biographic Data
| ID | 13661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Petryna |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Petryna |
| SIGNATURE | PETRYNA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8952-7559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 369 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Futurities Rethought: On the Political Imminences of Runaway Nature
The impacts of climate change are accelerating worldwide, but emergency agencies and political bodies are not always equipped to anticipate where, when, or how severe the next unnatural disaster will be. Amid megafire seasons, for example, scientists are revising models of fire behavior that were calibrated to natures that increasingly diverge from known baselines and trends. Emergency responders’ trust in patterns has become an occupational haza…
In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
Meeting Things Where They Are: Horizon Thinking amid Complex Futures
De-occupation as planetary politics: On the Russian war in Ukraine
Russia's attempted occupation of Ukraine informs a concept of de-occupation in an age of 21st-century planetary wars. The tide of war crimes committed in Ukraine is beyond dispute, having been identified by legal scholars as genocidal attempts to condemn the very foundations of livelihood. I discuss the precedents that have allowed such crimes to occur and describe how Ukrainians are trying to counter these crimes, forming a particular kind of re…
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
In Horizon Work, Adriana Petryna explores how scientists are adapting to the challenges of researching runaway climate change. She argues that climate change requires a new mode of scientific inquiry, one that moves beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and embraces uncertainty. Scientists are developing new methods of observation, modeling, and prediction, but they are also grappling with the ethical and political implications of their work…
The Covid Horizon: Introduction to the Special Section
Prompted by long-standing realities that have recently erupted during the pandemic and ongoing protests against racial injustice in the US, this Special Section's essays evolved out of conversations around the theme of the 'COVID Horizon'. Authored by physician-anthropologists at various stages of their training, the Position Pieces describe vital searches for liveability in domains of emergency response. Moving beyond the walls of the clinical, …
Wildfires at the Edges of Science: Horizoning Work amid Runaway Change
Ecosystem changes are happening with surprising speed and on much shorter-than-projected time scales. This essay explores the complexities of such abrupt environmental shifts, how scientists conceptualize a runaway nature, and how uncertainty poses a problem of projection and action. Its ethnographic material engages contexts where rapidly faltering projections and policies interface in unsettled ways with the realities of emergency response, esp…
Horizoning: The Work of Projection in Abrupt Climate Change
On the nature of catastrophic forms
The challenging nature of gathering evidence and analyzing the judicialization of health in Brazil
de coletar evidncias e analisar a judicializao da sade no Brasil La desafiante naturaleza de reunir
Tratamentos jurídicos: Os Mercados Terapêuticos E a Judicialização Do Direito À Saúde
Esse estudo mostra a luta de pais para que filhos portadores de mucopolissacaridose tenham acesso a medicamentos caros, em nome do direito universal à saúde. O trabalho explora como, no Brasil, o litígio pelo direito à saúde tornou-se um caminho alternativo de acesso à saúde e evidencia a disputa de diferentes atores dos setores público e privado no processo de judicialização da saúde. Entende-se, portanto, que a biotecnologia recria valores huma…
Eight. What Is a Horizon? Navigating Thresholds in Climate Change Uncertainty - Adriana Petryna
This essay analyzes the shift from incremental to exponential accelerations in atmospheric CO2 and its implications for the science and governance of climate change. It examines some of the models and tools that scientists are developing to address and manage environmental uncertainty, as well as their emerging forms of scientific monitoring of increasingly unpredictable ecosystemic behaviors. A central question concerns how such sciences contrib…
Health: Anthropological Aspects
Risks of Citizenship and Fault Lines of Survival
This article probes the contradictions and unacknowledged risks inherent in the notion of citizenship today. We explore the possible fault lines that citizenship places on the notion of universality, namely the anthropology of contexts in which citizenship and biological self-preservation are being radically decoupled as well as the policies, techniques, and media (biological, health, juridical) through which such decoupling takes place. What con…
Peopling Global Health
The field of Global Health brings together a vastly diverse array of actors working to address pressing health issues worldwide with unprecedented financial and technological resources and informed by various agendas. While Global Health initiatives are booming and displacing earlier framings of the field (such as tropical medicine or international health), critical analyses of the social, political, and economic processes associated with this ex…
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
The Right of Recovery
The responsibility for medicinal access and care has progressively shifted from the biomedical clinic and doctor-patient relations to precarious social institutions and legal and experimental settings. These settings afford proxy public health care, triaging services, and care delivery often on the basis of emergency or strict criteria of eligibility, urgency, or need. In this essay I trace out a conceptual shift in biomedicine and global health …
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Adriana Petryna's *Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl* offers a groundbreaking anthropological analysis of the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, focusing on the lived experiences of affected populations in Ukraine. The book examines how the disaster and subsequent state responses shaped the emergence of "biological citizenship," where individuals' claims for recognition, resources, and rights are articulated through the lens of …
The Competitive Logic of Global Clinical Trials
The outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials has expanded a global field of experimental activity. This essay addresses the competitive logic and social norms by which a field of human subjects research for drug development has taken form. The clinical trials industry and its move to low- and middle-income countries (particularly in eastern Europe) serve as a telescope into the global clinical trial and how it is crafted and made to work in …
Experimentalidade: Ciência, Capital E Poder No Mundo Dos Ensaios Clínicos
A terceirização e expatriação de ensaios clínicos abriram um campo de atividade experimental sem precedentes. Este ensaio discute os mecanismos científicos e regulatórios através dos quais um campo global de experimentalidade se configura. Ele mapeia a indústria de ensaios clínicos e seu deslocamento para países de média e baixa renda (especialmente o Leste Europeu e o Brasil). Enquanto o empreendimento de ensaios clínicos se adapta a normas regu…
Bodies of Rights and Therapeutic Markets
Brazil is among the approximately 100 countries that recognize a constitutional right to health that includes access to medicines. All over Brazil, patients are turning to courts to access prescribed medicines. Although lawsuits secure access for thousands of people, at least temporarily, this judicialization of the right to health generates intensely complex sociomedical realities and significant administrative and fiscal challenges that, offici…
Pharmaceuticals and the Right to Health: Reclaiming Patients and the Evidence Base of New Drugs
There has been considerable growth in clinical trials being offshored and conducted worldwide. Research on new drugs and drug development spending has skyrocketed over the past three decades, but the public benefits stemming from this boom remain limited. Because clinical trials are expensive, they often undermine the affordability and accessibility of new medicines. Once trial data has been sent off to headquarters, new problems emerge locally s…
Paradigms of expected failure
Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health
Experimentality: On the Global Mobility and Regulation of Human Subjects Research
The outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials has generated an unprecedented global field of experimental activity. The geography of drug development and clinical trial participation is changing, but estimates of trials being carried out worldwide remain tentative at best. This essay charts the mobility of the clinical trials industry and its move into low- and middle-income countries. It explores how subcontracted scientists and entrepreneur…
Ethical variability: Drug development and globalizing clinical trials
The rapid growth of pharmaceutical markets has led to increased demands for human subjects for drug research, particularly in low‐income countries. For regulatory, economic, and even biological reasons, new populations are being pursued as human subjects for pharmaceutical trials. In this article I consider the evolution of commercialized clinical trials and ethical and regulatory environments as they contribute to a dramatic growth of human‐subj…
Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations
In the transition out of socialism to market capitalism, bodies, populations, and categories of citizenship have been reordered. The rational-technical management of groups affected by the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine is a window into this contested process. Chernobyl exemplifies a moment when scientific knowability collapsed and new maps and categories of entitlement emerged. Older models of welfare rely on precise definitions situating citizen…
Wildfires at the Edges of Science: Horizoning Work amid Runaway Change
Ecosystem changes are happening with surprising speed and on much shorter-than-projected time scales. This essay explores the complexities of such abrupt environmental shifts, how scientists conceptualize a runaway nature, and how uncertainty poses a problem of projection and action. Its ethnographic material engages contexts where rapidly faltering projections and policies interface in unsettled ways with the realities of emergency response, esp…
Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health
Risks of Citizenship and Fault Lines of Survival
This article probes the contradictions and unacknowledged risks inherent in the notion of citizenship today. We explore the possible fault lines that citizenship places on the notion of universality, namely the anthropology of contexts in which citizenship and biological self-preservation are being radically decoupled as well as the policies, techniques, and media (biological, health, juridical) through which such decoupling takes place. What con…
Experimentality: On the Global Mobility and Regulation of Human Subjects Research
The outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials has generated an unprecedented global field of experimental activity. The geography of drug development and clinical trial participation is changing, but estimates of trials being carried out worldwide remain tentative at best. This essay charts the mobility of the clinical trials industry and its move into low- and middle-income countries. It explores how subcontracted scientists and entrepreneur…
Bodies of Rights and Therapeutic Markets
Brazil is among the approximately 100 countries that recognize a constitutional right to health that includes access to medicines. All over Brazil, patients are turning to courts to access prescribed medicines. Although lawsuits secure access for thousands of people, at least temporarily, this judicialization of the right to health generates intensely complex sociomedical realities and significant administrative and fiscal challenges that, offici…
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
In Horizon Work, Adriana Petryna explores how scientists are adapting to the challenges of researching runaway climate change. She argues that climate change requires a new mode of scientific inquiry, one that moves beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and embraces uncertainty. Scientists are developing new methods of observation, modeling, and prediction, but they are also grappling with the ethical and political implications of their work…
Tratamentos jurídicos: Os Mercados Terapêuticos E a Judicialização Do Direito À Saúde
Esse estudo mostra a luta de pais para que filhos portadores de mucopolissacaridose tenham acesso a medicamentos caros, em nome do direito universal à saúde. O trabalho explora como, no Brasil, o litígio pelo direito à saúde tornou-se um caminho alternativo de acesso à saúde e evidencia a disputa de diferentes atores dos setores público e privado no processo de judicialização da saúde. Entende-se, portanto, que a biotecnologia recria valores huma…
The Right of Recovery
The responsibility for medicinal access and care has progressively shifted from the biomedical clinic and doctor-patient relations to precarious social institutions and legal and experimental settings. These settings afford proxy public health care, triaging services, and care delivery often on the basis of emergency or strict criteria of eligibility, urgency, or need. In this essay I trace out a conceptual shift in biomedicine and global health …
Experimentalidade: Ciência, Capital E Poder No Mundo Dos Ensaios Clínicos
A terceirização e expatriação de ensaios clínicos abriram um campo de atividade experimental sem precedentes. Este ensaio discute os mecanismos científicos e regulatórios através dos quais um campo global de experimentalidade se configura. Ele mapeia a indústria de ensaios clínicos e seu deslocamento para países de média e baixa renda (especialmente o Leste Europeu e o Brasil). Enquanto o empreendimento de ensaios clínicos se adapta a normas regu…
Peopling Global Health
The field of Global Health brings together a vastly diverse array of actors working to address pressing health issues worldwide with unprecedented financial and technological resources and informed by various agendas. While Global Health initiatives are booming and displacing earlier framings of the field (such as tropical medicine or international health), critical analyses of the social, political, and economic processes associated with this ex…
Sarcophagus: Chernobyl in Historical Light
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Adriana Petryna's *Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl* offers a groundbreaking anthropological analysis of the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, focusing on the lived experiences of affected populations in Ukraine. The book examines how the disaster and subsequent state responses shaped the emergence of "biological citizenship," where individuals' claims for recognition, resources, and rights are articulated through the lens of …
Pharmaceuticals and the Right to Health: Reclaiming Patients and the Evidence Base of New Drugs
There has been considerable growth in clinical trials being offshored and conducted worldwide. Research on new drugs and drug development spending has skyrocketed over the past three decades, but the public benefits stemming from this boom remain limited. Because clinical trials are expensive, they often undermine the affordability and accessibility of new medicines. Once trial data has been sent off to headquarters, new problems emerge locally s…
De-occupation as planetary politics: On the Russian war in Ukraine
Russia's attempted occupation of Ukraine informs a concept of de-occupation in an age of 21st-century planetary wars. The tide of war crimes committed in Ukraine is beyond dispute, having been identified by legal scholars as genocidal attempts to condemn the very foundations of livelihood. I discuss the precedents that have allowed such crimes to occur and describe how Ukrainians are trying to counter these crimes, forming a particular kind of re…
Futurities Rethought: On the Political Imminences of Runaway Nature
The impacts of climate change are accelerating worldwide, but emergency agencies and political bodies are not always equipped to anticipate where, when, or how severe the next unnatural disaster will be. Amid megafire seasons, for example, scientists are revising models of fire behavior that were calibrated to natures that increasingly diverge from known baselines and trends. Emergency responders’ trust in patterns has become an occupational haza…
The Covid Horizon: Introduction to the Special Section
Prompted by long-standing realities that have recently erupted during the pandemic and ongoing protests against racial injustice in the US, this Special Section's essays evolved out of conversations around the theme of the 'COVID Horizon'. Authored by physician-anthropologists at various stages of their training, the Position Pieces describe vital searches for liveability in domains of emergency response. Moving beyond the walls of the clinical, …
The Competitive Logic of Global Clinical Trials
The outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials has expanded a global field of experimental activity. This essay addresses the competitive logic and social norms by which a field of human subjects research for drug development has taken form. The clinical trials industry and its move to low- and middle-income countries (particularly in eastern Europe) serve as a telescope into the global clinical trial and how it is crafted and made to work in …
Specificities: A Technical Error: Measures of Life after Chernobyl
I consider radiation illness and health truths related to the Chernobyl nuclear accident as an opening to the underside of productive political and scientific uses of discourses on genocide . In Ukraine, the discourse on genocide about Chernobyl largely has been deployed through a politics of national autonomy and a legally enacted concept of 'safe living'. In the United States, the bioscientific discourses related to Chernobylimply that current …
Sarcophagus: Chernobyl in Historical Light
Specificities: A Technical Error: Measures of Life after Chernobyl
I consider radiation illness and health truths related to the Chernobyl nuclear accident as an opening to the underside of productive political and scientific uses of discourses on genocide . In Ukraine, the discourse on genocide about Chernobyl largely has been deployed through a politics of national autonomy and a legally enacted concept of 'safe living'. In the United States, the bioscientific discourses related to Chernobylimply that current …
Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism
Introduction THIS essay explores science as a political technique and the place of scientific knowledge in the dynamics of a postsocialist transition by taking the management of the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe as a case in point. I begin with a brief exploration of three ways of conceiving of science as political technique: science as repression, science as a forging of a cosmopolitan ethos, and science as a way of rooting peop…
Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations
In the transition out of socialism to market capitalism, bodies, populations, and categories of citizenship have been reordered. The rational-technical management of groups affected by the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine is a window into this contested process. Chernobyl exemplifies a moment when scientific knowability collapsed and new maps and categories of entitlement emerged. Older models of welfare rely on precise definitions situating citizen…
Ethical variability: Drug development and globalizing clinical trials
The rapid growth of pharmaceutical markets has led to increased demands for human subjects for drug research, particularly in low‐income countries. For regulatory, economic, and even biological reasons, new populations are being pursued as human subjects for pharmaceutical trials. In this article I consider the evolution of commercialized clinical trials and ethical and regulatory environments as they contribute to a dramatic growth of human‐subj…
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices
Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health
Experimentality: On the Global Mobility and Regulation of Human Subjects Research
The outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials has generated an unprecedented global field of experimental activity. The geography of drug development and clinical trial participation is changing, but estimates of trials being carried out worldwide remain tentative at best. This essay charts the mobility of the clinical trials industry and its move into low- and middle-income countries. It explores how subcontracted scientists and entrepreneur…
Paradigms of expected failure
The Competitive Logic of Global Clinical Trials
The outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials has expanded a global field of experimental activity. This essay addresses the competitive logic and social norms by which a field of human subjects research for drug development has taken form. The clinical trials industry and its move to low- and middle-income countries (particularly in eastern Europe) serve as a telescope into the global clinical trial and how it is crafted and made to work in …
Experimentalidade: Ciência, Capital E Poder No Mundo Dos Ensaios Clínicos
A terceirização e expatriação de ensaios clínicos abriram um campo de atividade experimental sem precedentes. Este ensaio discute os mecanismos científicos e regulatórios através dos quais um campo global de experimentalidade se configura. Ele mapeia a indústria de ensaios clínicos e seu deslocamento para países de média e baixa renda (especialmente o Leste Europeu e o Brasil). Enquanto o empreendimento de ensaios clínicos se adapta a normas regu…
Bodies of Rights and Therapeutic Markets
Brazil is among the approximately 100 countries that recognize a constitutional right to health that includes access to medicines. All over Brazil, patients are turning to courts to access prescribed medicines. Although lawsuits secure access for thousands of people, at least temporarily, this judicialization of the right to health generates intensely complex sociomedical realities and significant administrative and fiscal challenges that, offici…
Pharmaceuticals and the Right to Health: Reclaiming Patients and the Evidence Base of New Drugs
There has been considerable growth in clinical trials being offshored and conducted worldwide. Research on new drugs and drug development spending has skyrocketed over the past three decades, but the public benefits stemming from this boom remain limited. Because clinical trials are expensive, they often undermine the affordability and accessibility of new medicines. Once trial data has been sent off to headquarters, new problems emerge locally s…
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
The Right of Recovery
The responsibility for medicinal access and care has progressively shifted from the biomedical clinic and doctor-patient relations to precarious social institutions and legal and experimental settings. These settings afford proxy public health care, triaging services, and care delivery often on the basis of emergency or strict criteria of eligibility, urgency, or need. In this essay I trace out a conceptual shift in biomedicine and global health …
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Adriana Petryna's *Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl* offers a groundbreaking anthropological analysis of the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, focusing on the lived experiences of affected populations in Ukraine. The book examines how the disaster and subsequent state responses shaped the emergence of "biological citizenship," where individuals' claims for recognition, resources, and rights are articulated through the lens of …
Peopling Global Health
The field of Global Health brings together a vastly diverse array of actors working to address pressing health issues worldwide with unprecedented financial and technological resources and informed by various agendas. While Global Health initiatives are booming and displacing earlier framings of the field (such as tropical medicine or international health), critical analyses of the social, political, and economic processes associated with this ex…
Eight. What Is a Horizon? Navigating Thresholds in Climate Change Uncertainty - Adriana Petryna
This essay analyzes the shift from incremental to exponential accelerations in atmospheric CO2 and its implications for the science and governance of climate change. It examines some of the models and tools that scientists are developing to address and manage environmental uncertainty, as well as their emerging forms of scientific monitoring of increasingly unpredictable ecosystemic behaviors. A central question concerns how such sciences contrib…
Health: Anthropological Aspects
Risks of Citizenship and Fault Lines of Survival
This article probes the contradictions and unacknowledged risks inherent in the notion of citizenship today. We explore the possible fault lines that citizenship places on the notion of universality, namely the anthropology of contexts in which citizenship and biological self-preservation are being radically decoupled as well as the policies, techniques, and media (biological, health, juridical) through which such decoupling takes place. What con…
The challenging nature of gathering evidence and analyzing the judicialization of health in Brazil
de coletar evidncias e analisar a judicializao da sade no Brasil La desafiante naturaleza de reunir
Tratamentos jurídicos: Os Mercados Terapêuticos E a Judicialização Do Direito À Saúde
Esse estudo mostra a luta de pais para que filhos portadores de mucopolissacaridose tenham acesso a medicamentos caros, em nome do direito universal à saúde. O trabalho explora como, no Brasil, o litígio pelo direito à saúde tornou-se um caminho alternativo de acesso à saúde e evidencia a disputa de diferentes atores dos setores público e privado no processo de judicialização da saúde. Entende-se, portanto, que a biotecnologia recria valores huma…
Horizoning: The Work of Projection in Abrupt Climate Change
On the nature of catastrophic forms
Wildfires at the Edges of Science: Horizoning Work amid Runaway Change
Ecosystem changes are happening with surprising speed and on much shorter-than-projected time scales. This essay explores the complexities of such abrupt environmental shifts, how scientists conceptualize a runaway nature, and how uncertainty poses a problem of projection and action. Its ethnographic material engages contexts where rapidly faltering projections and policies interface in unsettled ways with the realities of emergency response, esp…
Political science (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (7 works) · History (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Business (6 works)