Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam. Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2021, 240 pp.

Martha Lincoln

June 23, 2022

Book Review

Review of The Devil's Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice. Dvera I. Saxton, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021, 233 pp.

Nolan Kline

April 27, 2022

Book Review

Review of Extreme Weight Loss: Life before and after Bariatric Surgery. Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich, New York: NYU Press, 2021, 232 pp.

Bodil Just Christensen and Lotte Holm

April 15, 2022

Book Review

Review of Dying to Count: Post‐abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal. Siri Suh, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021, 226 pp.

Mounia El Kotni

April 15, 2022

Book Review

Review of Reimagining Social Medicine from the South. Abigail H. Neely, Durham: Duke University Press, 2021, 169 pp.

Casey Golomski

April 15, 2022

Book Review

Review of Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical & Conceptual Perspectives. Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg, editors, New York: Berghahn, 2020, 252 pp.

Christa Craven

October 11, 2021

Book Review

Review of Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self‐mastery. Joseph E. Davis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 256 pp.

Michael Oldani

October 11, 2021

Book Review

Review of Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India, Lesley Jo Weaver, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020, 202 pp.

Victoria Sheldon

October 11, 2021

Book Review

Review of Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, eds., Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 320 pp.

Chelsey R. Carter

October 11, 2021

Book Review

Review of Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism. Sara E. Lewis, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019, 228 pp.

Dylan Thomas Lott

October 11, 2021