Tobias Rees is Associate Professor of Social Studies of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at 成人VR视频 and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIFAR).
His expertise lies at the intersection of anthropology, art history, the history of science, and the philosophy of modernity and concerns the study of knowledge/thought. More specifically, he is interested in how categories that order knowledge mutate over time 鈥撯�� because of humans, microbes, snails, the weather, or other events 鈥撯�� and in what effects these mutations have on conceptions of the human/the real.
The main areas of Professor Rees鈥� research have been emergent phenomena in the life sciences and in medicine, with a specific focus on neurobiology, global health, the microbiome, and immunology.
Selected Books
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, Durham: Duke University Press,聽2008聽(together with Paul Rabinow, George Marcus, & James Faubion).
Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of the Effort to Think the Adult Human Brain in Embryogenetic Terms, forthcoming with the University of California Press,聽2016.
After Ethnos. Forthcoming with the University of California Press.聽2017.
On How the Brain Outgrew Its Histories. Forthcoming with the University of Fordham Press.聽2017.
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
鈥淏eing Neurologically Human Today: Life, Science, and Adult Cerebral Plasticity (An Ethical Analysis),鈥� in: American Ethnologist, Volume 37, No. 1, pp. 150-166,聽2010.
鈥淭o Open up New Spaces of Thought: Anthropology BSC (Beyond Society and Culture),鈥� in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 158-163,聽2010.
鈥淭he Challenge 鈥� and Beauty 鈥� of (Contemporary) Anthropology,鈥� in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 895-900,聽2010.
鈥淎s if Theory is the only Form of Thinking and Social Theory the only Form of Critique,鈥� in: Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 341-365,聽2011.
鈥淢edical Anthropology Enters the 21st聽Century,鈥� in: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, Vol. 199, No. 8, pp. 592-596,聽2011聽(with Allan Young).
鈥淪o Plastic a Brain: On Philosophy, Fieldwork in Philosophy, and Adult Cerebral Plasticity,鈥� in: BioSocieties, pp. 263-267,聽2011.聽
鈥淗umanity/Plan 鈥撯�� On the Stateless Today (Also Being an Anthropology of Global Health),鈥� in: Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 457-478,聽2014.
鈥淒evelopmental Diseases: An Introduction to the Neurological Human (in Motion),鈥� in: American Ethnologist, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 161-174,聽2015.
鈥淥nce Cell Death, Now Cell Life. On Plasticity and Pathology ca. 1800 to 2014,鈥� forthcoming in: David Bates Nima Bassri (eds.),聽Plasticity and Pathology, Bronx: Fordham University Press聽2016.聽