Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans Medicine. Eric Plemons, Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, 208 pp.

Bernadette Wegenstein

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism. Lisa Diedrich, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 290 pp.

Mary Anglin

March 1, 2019

Book Review

Review of Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis. Ilana Löwy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017, 277 pp.

Sallie Han

December 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives, Sarah Lamb, ed., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017, 266 pp.

Aaron Seaman

December 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia. Jean Hunleth, Rutgers University Press, 2017, 224 pp.

Rania Kassab Sweis

December 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy. Kia Lilly Caldwell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017, 216 pp.

Alysia Loren Mann Carey

December 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital. Mark de Rond, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017, 176 pp.

Omar Dewachi

December 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat. Deborah Diniz, translated by Diane Groskalus Whitty, London: Zed Books, 2016, 192 pp.

Arachu Castro and Jeni Stolow

December 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Reinventing Hoodia: Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa. Laura A. Foster, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017, 232 pp.

Damien Droney

December 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Abortion Pills, Test Tube Babies, and Sex Toys: Emerging Sexual and Reproductive Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa. L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, eds., Nashville: Vanderbilt Press, 2016, 251 pp.

Cortney Hughes Rinker

December 1, 2018