Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject. David Bates Nima Bassiri, New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, 368pp.

Kathryn E. Goldfarb

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Namibia's Rainbow Project. Gay Rights in African Nation. Robert Lorway, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015, 155pp.

Patrick Awondo

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Recovery's Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency. Neely Laurenzo Myers, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, 191 pp.

Jack R. Friedman

December 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone. Adia Benton, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, 176 pp.

Raphael Frankfurter

December 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed. Zoë H. Wool, Durham: Duke University Press, 2015, 244 pp.

Elizabeth Lewis

December 1, 2016

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Review of Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital. Alice Street, Durham: Duke University Press, 2014, 290 pp.

Holly Wardlow

December 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Improvising Medicine. Julie Livingston, Durham: Duke University Press, 2012, 228 pp.

Carolyn Sargent

December 1, 2016

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Review of The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala. Emily Yates-Doerr, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 248 pp.

Alexandra A. Brewis and Sarah Trainer

December 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of In This Body: Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit. Servando Z. Hinojosa, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015, 272 pp.

Timothy W. Knowlton

December 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Sharon Abramowitz, and Catherine Panter-Brick eds., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 274 pp.

Pierre Minn

December 1, 2016