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Review of Voices from the front lines: The pandemic and the humanities By Katherine RatzanPeeler and Richard M.Ratzan (Eds.), San Francisco, CA: University of California Health Humanities Press. 2024. 336 pp.

Blake Erickson

May 8, 2025

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Review of The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By ThomasCousins, New York: Fordham University Press. 2023. 320 pp.

Devika Singh Shekhawat

May 8, 2025

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Review of Milk Craze: Body, science, and hope in China By VeronicaMak, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2021. 256 pp.

Koyna Tomar

May 8, 2025

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Review of Abortion care as moral work: Ethical considerations of maternal and fetal bodies By JohannaSchoen (ed)., New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 202 pp.

Brenna McCaffrey

May 8, 2025

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Review of Ayahuasca as liquid divinity: An ontological approach By André van der Braak, Lanham: Lexington Books. 2023. 229 pp.

Shana Harris

May 8, 2025

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Review of The worlds of public health, anthropological excursions By DidierFassin, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2023. 274 pp.

Mayssa Rekhis and Seth M. Holmes

May 8, 2025

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Review of Landscapes of care: Immigration and health in rural America By ThurkaSangaramoorthy, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. 2023. 173 pp.

Elizabeth Carpenter‐Song

May 8, 2025

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Review of Circumcision and medicine in modern Turkey By OymanBasaran, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2023. 232 pp.

Aslihan Sanal

May 8, 2025

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Review of When death falls apart: Making and unmaking the necromaterial traditions of contemporary Japan By HannahGould, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2023. 168 pp.

Susan Orpett Long

May 8, 2025

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Review of Nuclear ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone By RyoMorimoto, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 339 pp.

Kathryn E. Goldfarb

May 8, 2025