Paul Rabinow 
PAUL RABINOW is a Professor of Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley and has conducted numerous anthropological studies of the biosciences, particularly in the domain of genomics. His books on the topic include Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (1996), French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory (1999), and – co-authored with Talia Dan-Cohen – A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles (2004). He has written extensively on conceptual and theoretical questions relating to anthropology and science and technology studies. Publications on the topic include the books Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (1996) and Anthropos Today (2001). Professor Rabinow has also been active in disciplinary developments relating to science and technology studies as editor of the series In/Formation at Princeton University Press and as co-editor of the series Life, Science, and Society at Cambridge University Press. His current work is on synthetic biology. Professor Rabinow is Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory.
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