Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown, eds., Rochester, NY: James Currey Press, 2016, 270 pp.

Lydia Boyd

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China. Tiantian Zheng, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, 244 pp.

Yifeng Cai

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India. Harris Solomon, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 292 pp.

Nayantara Sheoran Appleton

March 1, 2018

Book Review

Review of Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community. Julia Cassaniti, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, 213 pp.

Joanna Cook

December 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health. Nancy Owen Lewis, Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016, 315 pp.

Bharat Jayram Venkat

December 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering. Iain Wilkinson and Arthur Kleinman, Oakland: University of California Press, 2016, 302 pp.

Anja M. B. Jensen

December 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the U.S. Laura L. Heinneman, New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016, 186 pp.

Megan Crowley-Matoka

December 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine and Contemporary Life. Charles L. Briggs and Daniel C. Hallin, London: Routledge, 2016, 239 pp.

Josh Greenberg

December 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective. Devon Hinton and Byron Good, eds., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 440 pp.

Tanya Luhrmann

December 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Patient-centered IVF. Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic. Trudie Gerrits, New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, 357 pp.

Larissa Remennick

December 1, 2017