Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis. Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018, 320 pp.

Jessica C. Robbins

March 10, 2021

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Review of Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo. John M. Janzen, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019, 288 pp.

William C. Olsen

March 10, 2021

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Review of Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic. Amy Moran‐Thomas, Oakland: University of California Press, 2019, 384 pp.

Emily Yates‐Doerr

March 10, 2021

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Review of Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities: Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania. Dominik Mattes, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019, 436 pp.

Ellen Block

March 10, 2021

Book Review

Review of The Doctor and Mrs. A: Ethics and Counter-ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis. Sarah Pinto, New York: Fordham University Press, 2019, 256 pp.

Douglas Hollan

September 1, 2020

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Review of African Medical Pluralism. William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent, editors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017, 265 pp.

Elizabeth Durham

September 1, 2020

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Review of Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts. Frédéric Keck, Durham: Duke University Press, 2020, 245 pp.

Katherine A. Mason

September 1, 2020

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Review of Fault Lines of Care: Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia. Carina Heckert, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018, 187 pp.

Jennifer L. Syvertsen

September 1, 2020

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Review of Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge and Place in South African Drug Discovery. Anne Pollock, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 191 pp.

Anita Hardon

September 1, 2020

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Review of War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and AfghanistanCatherine Lutz and Andrea Mazzarino, editors, New York: New York University Press, 2019, 288 pp.

Craig Jones

September 1, 2020