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Review of Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease By Alexandre I.R. White, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 304 pp.

Agustin Fuentes

May 17, 2024

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Review of Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and Power By Nancy E. Riley and Nilanjana Chatterjee, Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press. 2023. 224 pp.

Jessica L. Lott

May 17, 2024

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Review of Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India By Laurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos (Eds.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 211 pp.

Tawni Tidwell

March 9, 2024

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Review of An Imperative to Cure Principles and Practices of Q'eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize By James B. Waldram, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2020. 271 pp.

Miguel Cuj

March 9, 2024

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Review of Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers By Elisabeth Hsu, New York: Berghahn, 2022. pp. 440.

Yidong Gong

December 22, 2023

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Review of Glyphosate & the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move By Vincanne Adams, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 184.

Nicholas Shapiro

December 22, 2023

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Review of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From? By Hagai Boas, New York: Routledge. 2022. pp. 214.

Angela Leocata

December 22, 2023

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Review of Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions in Global Perspective By Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson, Belinda Spagnoletti, London: University College London Press. 2023. pp. 272.

Elspeth Davies

December 22, 2023

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Review of On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief By Tom Scott‐Smith, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2020. pp. 288.

Karen Díaz Serrano

December 22, 2023

Book Review

Review of Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt By Rania Kassab Sweis, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 208.

Jess Marie Newman

December 22, 2023