Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges by Michael M.J. Fischer

(2) The anthropology of media circuits, with foci of regional attention to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. He co-edited A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories and Emergent Realities (with Byron Good, Mary Jo Good, and Sarah Willen).

He has also helped the National University of Singapore to establish an STS cluster, and is engaged at the new Singapore University of Technology and Design to do the same. (1) The anthropology of the biomedical sciences and technologies He has worked with the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Human Geonome Organization (HUGO) on social and ethical issues associated with genomics and with capacity building in the Asia-Pacific region and with the MIT- Indian Department of Biotechnology project to establish a Translational Medicine Institute in New Delhi on the MIT Health Science and Technology (HST) model. He has done fieldwork in the Caribbean, Iran, India, and currently in Southeast Asia on new initiatives in the biosciences and biotechnologies He has taught at Chicago, Harvard, Rice, and MIT, serving as Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at Rice, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT. He trained at Johns Hopkins, the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago (PhD). Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at MIT, as well as Lecturer in Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges by Michael M.J. Fischer