Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Richard A. O'Connor and Peggy Van Esterik. New York: Berghann Books, 2015, 252 pages.

Rebecca Lester

June 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger. Carlo Caduff, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 254 pp.

Merrill Singer

June 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of A Right to Health: Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil. Jessica Scott Jerome, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015, 177 pp.

Alex Gertner

June 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives. Brandon Kohrt and Emily Mendenhall, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2015, 389 pp.

Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin

June 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and where to Draw the Line. Sharon R. Kaufman, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, 314 pp.

Sarah Lamb

June 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy. Todd Meyers, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013, 170 pp.

Kelly Ray Knight

March 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Twins Talk: What Twins Tell Us about Person, Self, and Society. Dona Lee Davis, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014, 321 pp.

Alison Cool

March 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Anthropology of Infectious Disease. Merrill Singer, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015, 512 pp.

Theresa MacPhail

March 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine. Julie Laplante, New York: Berghahn Books, 2015, 289 pp.

Abigail Lynch

March 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective. LisaL. Gezon, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2012, 263 pp.

Guntars Ermansons

March 1, 2016