Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She carries out research in East Africa on social efforts to secure well-being in the face of poverty, ill health, conflict, and rapid change. Among other works, she has authored or edited Disability and Culture (University of California Press, 1995); Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Social Lives of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2002); Disability in Local and Global Worlds (University of California Press, 2007); and Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda (Duke University Press, 2014).