Archives: Book Reviews

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Book Review

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

Book Review

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