Archives: Book Reviews

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

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