Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India. Sheela Saravanan, Singapore: Springer, 2018, 183 pp.

Holly Donahue Singh

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well‐being in Postsocialist Russia. Tomas Matza, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 305 pp.

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Nicole C. Nelson, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 255 pp.

Natalie Hannah Porter

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Wasted Wombs: Navigating Reproductive Interruptions in Cameroon. Erica van der Sijpt, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018, 280 pp.

Alison Heller

September 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of India and the Patent Wars: Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime. Murphy Halliburton, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017, 187 pp.

Dwaipayan Banerjee

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples. Randall M. Packard, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016, 432 pp.

Ian Harper

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform. Theresia Hofer, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018, 286 pp.

Jan M. A. der Valk

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society. Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott, eds., New York: Bergahn Books, 2018, 298 pp.

Christine Sargent

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Universalism without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind & Culture. Julia L. Cassaniti and Usha Menon, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 317 pp.

Merav Shohet

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa. Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, and Noemi Tousignant, eds., With special contributions by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Mariele Neudecker, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 256 pp.

Stacey Ann Langwick

June 1, 2019