Archives: Book Reviews

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

Book Review

Review of Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability. Nancy Chen and Lesley Sharp, eds., Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press Advanced Seminar Series, 2014, 320 pp.

Alex Nading

March 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Community Health Narratives: A Reader. Emily Mendenhall and Kathy Wollner, eds., Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015, 338 pp.

Nolan Kline

March 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Heartsick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease. JanetShim New York: NYU Press, 2014, 277 pp.

Michael J. Montoya

March 1, 2016

Book Review

Review of Para-states and Medical Science: Making African Global Health. P. WenzelGeissler, ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2015, 376 pp.

Johanna Crane

March 1, 2016