Eugene Raikhel is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago.

A cultural and medical anthropologist, his work follows therapeutic technologies as they move both from “bench to bedside” and from one cultural or institutional setting to another, examining how they intersect with the lives of practitioners and patients.

He is the editor (with William Garriott) of the volume Addiction Trajectories (Duke University Press 2013), the founder and editor of the medical anthropology web-forum Somatosphere (http://somatosphere.net) and the author of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic (Cornell University Press, 2016).