Archives: Book Reviews

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

Book Review

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

Book Review

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

Book Review

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

Book Review

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