Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda. Jennifer Tappan, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017, 218 pp.

Johan Pottier

December 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change. Alison Kenner, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 248 pp.

Jerry C. Zee

December 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post‐Soviet Clinic. Eugene Raikhel, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016, 248 pp.

Tatiana Chudakova

December 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity. Arlene Stein, New York: Pantheon Books, 2018, 339 pp.

Eric Plemons

December 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Out of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone. Mariane Ferme, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018, 318 pp.

Danny Hoffman

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity. Noémi Tousignant, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 210 pp.

Stefanie Graeter

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care. Elana Buch, New York: NYU Press, 2018, 288 pp.

Janelle S. Taylor

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Tangled Diagnoses. Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk. Ilana Löwy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 319 pp.

Ayo Wahlberg

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Crystal Biruk, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 296 pp.

Ruth J. Prince

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. Jessica M. Mulligan and Heide Castañeda, eds., New York: NYU Press, 2018, 304 pp.

Laura A. Schmidt

September 1, 2019