Elizabeth is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and the author of In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependence in a Damaged World and God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes. Since 2013, she has participated in collaborative environmental health research in Mexico City.
Unabashed ravishment, whether from binge eating or drug use, makes those of us who strive for autonomous individuality deeply uncomfortable.…