Archives: Book Reviews

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

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