Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of Abortion in Post‐revolutionary Tunisia: Politics, Medicine and Morality. Irene Maffi, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020, 218 pp.

Whitney Arey

April 3, 2021

Book Review

Review of On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change. Jade E. Sasser, New York: NYU Press, 2018, 189 pp.

A. Danielle Dulken

April 3, 2021

Book Review

Review of Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang. Janet Carsten, Durham: Duke University Press, 2019, 256 pp.

Karen‐Sue Taussig

April 3, 2021

Book Review

Review of A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao. Emily Ng, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, 224 pp.

Barclay Bram

April 3, 2021

Book Review

Review of Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia: From Traditional Healers to Pharmaceutical Companies. Pino Schirripa, translated by Ciaran Durkin, London: Lexington Books, 2019, 138 pp.

Kenny Maes

March 10, 2021

Book Review

Review of Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State. Ciara Kierans, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019, 178 pp.

Monir Moniruzzaman

March 10, 2021

Book Review

Review of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America. David S. Cohen and Carole E. Joffe, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020, 296 pp.

Risa Cromer

March 10, 2021

Book Review

Review of Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England. Ben Kasstan, New York: Berghahn, 2019, 272 pp.

Elly Teman

March 10, 2021

Book Review

Review of An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic, Katie Kilroy‐Marac, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019, 269 pp.

Ursula M. Read

March 10, 2021

Book Review

Review of Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. J. L. Cassaniti, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, 318 pp.

Erik W. Davis

March 10, 2021