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Review of Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 282 pp.

Andrew Flachs

June 29, 2024

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Review of Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders By Sydney Calkin, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 278 pp.

Elise Andaya

June 27, 2024

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Review of The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty‐First Century By Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese (Eds.), Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press. 2022. 352 pp.

Sofia Pinedo‐Padoch

June 27, 2024

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Review of Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome By Alison Piepmeier, with George Estreich and Rachel Adams. New York: NYU Press. 2021. 200 pp.

Christine Sargent

June 27, 2024

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Review of Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife By Tonia Sutherland, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 214 pp.

Akil Fletcher

June 27, 2024

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Review of Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England By Elizabeth Carpenter‐Song, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2023. 176 pp.

Claudia Strauss

June 27, 2024

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Review of Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State By Martha Lincoln, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2022. 232 pp.

C. Michele Thompson

June 21, 2024

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Review of Embodied Politics: Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency and Health Promotion in California By Rebecca J. Hester, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 208 pp.

Óscar F. Gil‐García

June 21, 2024

Book Review

Review of Making Diabetes: The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda By Arlena Siobhan Liggins, New York: Columbia University Press. 2020. 242 pp.

Kayla Patterson

June 21, 2024

Book Review

Review of Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America By Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Lina Berrio (Eds.), London: UCL Press. 2022. 286 pp.

Pablo Seward Delaporte

June 21, 2024