Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of Privileges of Birth: Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa. Jennifer J. M. Rogerson, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020, 200 pp.

Rosalynn A. Vega

September 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy. Daniel Navon, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 396 pp.

M. Ariel Cascio

September 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam. Laurence Monnais, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 280 pp.

Alfred Montoya

September 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine. Jennifer J. Carroll, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019, 252 pp.

J. Bryan Page

September 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Self-devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa. Julie Livingston, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, 160 pp.

Sharon R. Kaufman

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health. Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, 270 pp.

Emily Mendenhall

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of No Alternative: Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico. Rosalynn A. Vega, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018, 238 pp.

Lydia Zacher Dixon

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Being a Sperm Donor: Masculinity, Sexuality and Biosociality in Denmark. Sebastian Mohr. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018, 198 pp.

Robert Pralat

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Global Fluids: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value. Charlotte Kroløkke, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018, 206 pp.

Katharine Dow

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography. Rebecca M. Jordan—Young and Katrina Karkazis, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019, 289 pp.

Matthew Gutmann

June 1, 2020