Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of Arc of interference: Medical anthropology for worlds on edge By JoãoBiehl, VincanneAdams (Eds.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. 385 pp.

Sarah S. Willen

May 8, 2025

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Review of The evening of life: The challenges of aging and dying well By PaulScherz, Joseph E.Davis, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 214 pp.

Marlaine Figueroa Gray

May 8, 2025

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Review of The anthropology of obstetrics and obstetricians: The practice, maintenance, and reproduction of a biomedical profession By RobbieDavis‐Floyd and AshishPremkumar (Eds.), New York: Berghahn Series. Three volume series.Volume 1 – Obstetricians speak: On training, practice, fear, and transformation. 2023. 345 pp.Volume 2 – Cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics: Anthropological analyses and critiques of obstetricians’ practices. 2023. 334 pp.Volume 3 – Obstetric violence and systemic disparities: Can obstetrics be humanized and decolonized?2023. 376 pp.

Morgen A. Chalmiers

May 8, 2025

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Review of Social palliation: Canadian Muslims’ storied lives on living and dying By ParinDossa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2021. 216 pp.

Hannah Ali

May 8, 2025

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Review of Developing to scale: Technology and the making of global health By HeidiMorefield, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2023. 232 pp.

Laura A. Meek

May 8, 2025

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Review of A life of worry: Politics, mental health, and Vietnam's age of anxiety By AllenTran, Berkeley: University of California Press. 2023. 196 pp.

Merav Shohet

May 8, 2025

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Review of Review of an archive of possibilities: Healing and repair in Democratic Republic of Congo By Rachel MarieNiehuus, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2024. 201 pp.

Rundong Ning

May 6, 2025

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Review of Taming the poisonous: Mercury, toxicity, and safety in Tibetan medical practice By BarbaraGerke, Heidelberg, Germany: Heidelberg University Publishing. 2021. 379 pp.

Denise M. Glover

May 6, 2025

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Review of Toxic disruptions: Polycystic ovary syndrome in urban India By GauriPathak, New York, NY: Routledge. 2023. 158 pp.

Sayantan Saha Roy

May 6, 2025

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Review of Data paradoxes: The politics of intensified data sourcing in contemporary healthcare By KlausHoeyer, Cambridge: MIT Press. 2023. 314 pp.

Seda Saluk

May 6, 2025