Archives: Book Reviews

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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

Book Review

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

Book Review

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

Book Review

Review of All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain. Mara Buchbinder, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 256 pp.

Todd Meyers

December 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland. Joanna Mishtal, Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2015, 258 pp.

Jill Owczarzak

December 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics. Aaron Panofsky, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 320 pp.

Nicole C. Nelson

September 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Making Sense of Self-harm: The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury. Peter Steggals, New York; Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 242 pp.

Sandra H. Sulzer

September 1, 2016