Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of Preterm Birth in the United States: A Sociocultural Approach. Janet M. Bronstein, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016, 337 pp.

Sarah E. Rubin

December 1, 2017

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Review of Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness. Janis H. Jenkins, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 343 pp.

Emily Mendenhall

December 1, 2017

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Review of Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship and Commercial Surrogacy in India. Daisy Deomampo, New York: NYU Press, 2016, 288 pp.

Kalindi Vora

September 1, 2017

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Review of Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World. Robert Desjarlais, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 295 pp.

Anne Allison

September 1, 2017

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Review of Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil. Emilia Sanabria, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 252 pp.

K. Eliza Williamson

September 1, 2017

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Review of Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Vincanne Adams, ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 258 pp.

Peter Redfield

September 1, 2017

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Review of Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible. Shelly Z. Reuter, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 264 pp.

Ben Kasstan

September 1, 2017

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Review of Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico. Megan Crowley-Matoka, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 316 pp.

Lauren A. Wynne

September 1, 2017

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Review of No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine. Lotte Buch Segal, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 224 pp.

Guy Shalev

September 1, 2017

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Review of Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium. Veena Das and Clara Han, eds., Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016, 896 pp.

Cassandra Hartblay

September 1, 2017