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Review of Eating Beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies By Heather Paxson, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 248.

Jessica Hardin

December 14, 2023

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Review of Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic Perspectives on Caring, Edited by Laura Montesi, Melania Calestani, London: University College London Press. 2021. pp. 247.

Khadija Muhaisen

December 14, 2023

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Review of Elder Care in Crisis: How the Social Safety Net Fails Families By Emily K. Abel, New York: NYU Press. 2022. pp. 232.

Cati Coe

December 14, 2023

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Review of The Western Disease: Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora By Claire Laurier Decoteau, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2021. pp. 277.

M. Ariel Cascio

December 14, 2023

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Review of Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re‐Imagining Rights in India By Maya Unnithan, London: Routledge. 2019. pp. 233.

Holly Donahue Singh

December 14, 2023

Book Review

Review of Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine By Eric Karchmer, New York: Fordham University Press. 2022. pp. 272.

Jun Wang

September 30, 2023

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Review of The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania By Cristina A. Pop, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2022. pp. 228.

Cinzia Greco

September 30, 2023

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Review of A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence on the Margins of Bogotá By John I. B. Bhadra‐Heintz, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2022. pp. 258.

Emma Louise Backe

September 30, 2023

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Review of Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles By Claire Wendland, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2022. pp. 356.

Cal Biruk

September 30, 2023

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Review of Pathogenic Policing: Immigration Enforcement and Health in the US South by Nolan Kline, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2019. pp. 215.

Elizabeth Cartwright

September 30, 2023