Sean Brotherton is Professor of Anthropology at New York University.   He is a cultural anthropologist who studies and theorizes health, medicine, the state, subjectivity, and psychoanalysis.  Brotherton’s research intervenes in debates of medical anthropology, the anthropology of the body, and Latin American and Caribbean studies.  Across his work, he asks: What constitutes health or well-being, or the notion of a healthy subject, to whom does it matter, and why?  Over the past two decades, his overarching research questions have sought to weave historical, epistemological, and ethnographic modes of analysis into a theoretical approach that he calls a ‘genealogy of individual bodily practices.’ Within this framework, he examines the sometimes contradictory and overlapping relationships among quotidian individual practices, economic reform, and state power. Brotherton’s books include two monographs (Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba(Duke University Press) and Global Health, Otherwise: Cuba and the Politics of Care(under contract by Duke UP). He is currently working on another project, Armed Against Unhappiness: Psychoanalytic Grammars in Buenos Aires, which examines how diverse psychoanalytic communities in Buenos Aires have produced distinctive grammars that influence how individuals articulate ideas about health and well-being. A complete list of his publications is available on academia.edu.