Jarrett Zigon

Jarrett Zigon is the William & Linda Porterfield Chair in Bioethics and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books on ethics, drug rehabilitation, the 'anti-drug war' movement, and social change in post-Soviet Russia, including A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community, Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding , HIV Is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia , and Making the New...See more

Jarrett Zigon is the William & Linda Porterfield Chair in Bioethics and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books on ethics, drug rehabilitation, the 'anti-drug war' movement, and social change in post-Soviet Russia, including A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community, Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding , HIV Is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia , and Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow . See less