Archives: Book Reviews

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Review of Reconceiving Muslim Men: Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times. Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib, eds., New York: Berghahn Books, 2018, 335 pp.

Yael Hashiloni‐Dolev

March 1, 2020

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Review of Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars. Carolyn Sufrin, Oakland: University of California Press, 2017, 326 pp.

Kaya Naomi Williams

March 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Animal Ethos: The Morality of Human‐Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science, Lesley A. Sharp, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, 312 pp.

John Hartigan

March 1, 2020

Book Review

Review of Ghost‐Managed Medicine: Big Pharma's Invisible Hands. Sergio Sismondo, Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2018, 231 pp.

Murphy Halliburton

March 1, 2020