Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine. Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017, 344 pp.

Anne Pollock

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street. Jason Corburn and Lee Riley, eds., Oakland: University of California Press, 2016, 315 pp.

Jessica Jerome

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe. Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 243 pp.

Bernhard Hadolt

June 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Thai in Vitro: Gender, Culture, and Assisted Reproduction. Andrea Whittaker, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 276 pp.

Claudia Merli

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury. Anna Kirkland, New York: NYU Press, 2016, 273 pp.

Emily K. Brunson

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Society. Franziska Herbst, New York: Berghahn, 2016, 258 pp.

Alice Street

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations. Tanya Cassidy and Abdullah El Tom, eds., London: Bloomsbury, 2015, 255 pp.

Michelle Walks

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia. Kenneth Maes, New York: Routledge, 2017, 171 pp.

Crystal Biruk

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian hands. Beata Świtek, New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, 226 pp.

Iza Kavedžija

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation. Sheila Cosminsky. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 318 pp.

Jonathan Maupin

March 1, 2018