Archives: Book Reviews

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

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