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Keyword Biosketch Gareth Edel PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of Arts & Sciences Fordham University: Social Studies of Health Medicine and the Body, The construction of deviancy and normalcy in Biomedicine, Culture and Political Economy of International and Transnational Healthcare.

Speculative Biographical Sketch Gareth Edel PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of Arts & Sciences Fordham University, is Former postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, and recipient of Fulbright and National Science Foundation fellowships. He has previously been a lecturer throughout the CUNY system. He received his BA from Hampshire College, and completed an Ms and PhD with the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2011). Research interests center on the social studies of health, medicine and the body, with particular focus on the construction of deviancy and normalcy in biomedical practice and research. His work has focused on the cultural formation and political economy of international/transnational healthcare practice and institutions. Early publications centered on the positional situatedness of knowledge and the processes by which translation occurs between communities of practice in intimate encounters, especially those centered on the body. Author of numerous Journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of two books //Distributing Suffering & Survival: The History and Social Meaning of International Travel for Health Care// (2014), and //Transient Care: the founding of a medical industry// (2016), both arising from his doctoral research. He is the coeditor of two works: //Science’s Fictions and Science Fiction: the role of genre and language in the national science dialogue// with Sean Ferguson, and Gabrial McKee (2013), and //Seeing People in The city: Intimacy and the Urban Public and Private// (2015) with Lynne Desilva-Johnson et al. He is a regular contributor to //Seed// magazine. His new book //Prediction and Probability: the social formation of possibility is expected (2020).//