Julie Livingston is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University, where she is also affiliated with the anthropology department. She is interested in the human body as a moral condition and mode of consciousness, in care as a social practice, and in taxonomy and relationships that upend or complicate it. Her work is at the intersection of history, anthropology, and public health. She is the author of Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke University Press, 2012), Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (Indiana University Press 2005), and numerous articles and essays on topics including aging, disability, disgust, suicide, and medical photography. Livingston is currently working on two new projects. The first is a book-length essay on the problem of growth and consumption as seen from southern Africa. The second is an ethnographic project on co-morbidity and aging in New York.