Archives: Book Reviews

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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

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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

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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

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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