Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? Barbara Prainsack, New York: NYU Press, 2017, 288 pp.

Nadine Levin

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Old & Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System. Muriel R. Gillick, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, 300 pp.

Elana Buch

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine: Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer. S. D. Gottlieb, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018, 200 pp.

Julie Armin

June 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran. Orkideh Behrouzan, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016, 328 pp.

Shahla Talebi

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of The Zero Trimester: Pre-pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk. Miranda R. Waggoner, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017, 280 pp.

Elise Andaya

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique. Ramah McKay, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 256 pp.

China Scherz

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty‐first‐century America. Jennifer Terry, Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, 264 pp.

Kenneth MacLeish

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil. Alvaro Jarrín. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017, 272 pp.

Samuel Taylor‐Alexander

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy Development in the Navajo Nation. Dana E. Powell, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 309 pp.

Gilbert A. Quintero

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community. Elizabeth Hoover, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 392 pp.

Dana E. Powell

March 1, 2019