Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Births. Dana—Ain Davis, New York: NYU Press, 2019. 272 pp.

Khiara M. Bridges

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. Ashanté M. Reese, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 183 pp.

Megan A. Carney

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico. Whitney Duncan, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018, 272 pp.

Nia C. Parson

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho. Ellen Block and Will McGrath, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019, 246 pp.

Theodore Powers

June 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families. Diane Tober, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019, 240 pp.

Daisy Deomampo

March 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Chávez. Amy Cooper, Oakland: University of California Press, 2019, 216 pp.

Lynn M. Morgan

March 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US‐Mexico Border. Ieva Jusionyte, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, 296 pp.

Wendy Vogt

March 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Psychiatric Encounters: Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico. Beatriz Reyes‐Foster, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018, 197 pp.

Whitney L. Duncan

March 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control. Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke and Laura Eichelberger, editors, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019, 320 pp.

Carlo Caduff

March 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Collaboration in Sri Lanka, Salla Sariola, and Bob Simpson, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019, 209 pp.

Wim Van Daele

March 1, 2020