Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-making in Bhutan. Jonathan Taee, New York: Berghahn Press, 2017, 220 pp.

Pia Noël

September 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations across the Disciplines. Mara Buchbinder, Michelle Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca Walker, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016, 350 pp.

Jill Fleuriet

September 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Clare, Eli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, 218pp.

Michele Friedner and University of Chicago Disability Studies Study Group

July 26, 2018

Book Review

Review of Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 288 pp.

Jennifer R. Guzmán

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds. Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2015, 284 pp.

Andrea Whittaker

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights. Nichola Khan, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017, 129 pp.

Rebecca Seligman

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life. Aihwah Ong, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 312 pp.

Frederic Keck

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La vida no vale nada. Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Celestino Fernández, Jessie K. Finch, and Aracelia Masterson-Algar, eds., Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016, 302 pp.

John Doering-White

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health. Susan Craddock, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 166 pp.

Svea Closser

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary. Hervé Guibert. Translated by Clara Orban, with introduction by David Caron and afterword by Todd Meyers. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, 85 pp.

Andrew Irving

June 1, 2018