Volume 38, Issue 1 (March 2024)

Articles

Naturalizing unnatural death in Los Angeles County jails

Nicholas Shapiro and Terence Keel

Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference

César Padilla‐Altamira and Ciara Kierans

Technologies of care and the engineering imaginary: Two approaches to assistive device design for the Global South

Vaia Y. Sigounas

A Heart for the Care: Affect, Kin, and Care Work in a Zambian Hospital

Comfort Asante, Emma Nelson Bunkley, Jean Hunleth, Lindsey Kaufman, Sam Miti, and Sarah Burack

Ineffective responses to unlikely outbreaks: Hypothesis building in newly‐emerging infectious disease outbreaks

Andrew A Cunningham, Freya L Jephcott, J H Kofi Bonney, James L N Wood, P Wenzel Geissler, Stephen Nyarko‐Ameyaw, and Ursula Maier

Book Reviews

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

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

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

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

Review of Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk By Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 142 pp.

Mara H. Buchbinder

Review of Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By Matthew C. Canfield, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

Ash McLeod

Review of The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice By Melissa Checker, New York: NYU Press. 2020. 280 pp.

Keri Vacanti Brondo

Review of The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction By Sallie Han, Cecília Tomori (Eds.), Oxford: Routledge. 2022. 676 pp.

Emma Varley

Review of Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India By Michele Ilana Friedner, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. 269 pp.

Alicia Wright

Review of Administering Affect: Pop‐Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety By Daniel White, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

Michael Berman

Review of After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador By Irina Carlota Silber, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 2022. 256 pp.

Ester E. Hernández

Review of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different By Thomas W. Pearson, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 221 pp.

Aron S. Marie

Review of Aid and the Help: International Development and Transnational Extraction of Care By Dinah Hannaford, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 228 pp.

Kritika Pandey

Review of Care Work and Medical Travel: Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move By Cecilia Vindrola‐Padros (Ed.), Lexington: Lexington Press. 2021. 214 pp.

Amy Speier

Review of Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By Jessica Barnes, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 296 pp.

Kimberley G. Connor

Review of Living With HIV in Post‐Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame By David A. B. Murray, ed., Lanham: Lexington Books. 2021. 243 pp.

Corliss D. Heath

Review of Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything By Carrie Nielsen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 163 pp.

Daniel Renfrew

Review of A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America By Michael Carolan, Stanford, California: Redwood Press. 2021. 228 pp.

Emily Mendenhall

Review of Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados By Nicole Charles, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 196 pp.

Raphaëlle Rabanes

Review of Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care By Rima Praspaliauskiene, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2022. 146 pp.

Michelle Anne Parsons

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

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

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

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

C. Michele Thompson

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

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

Jessica L. Lott

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

Review of Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk By HyeyoungOh Nelson, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 142 pp.

Mara H. Buchbinder

Review of Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By Matthew C.Canfield, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

Ash McLeod

Review of The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice By MelissaChecker, New York: NYU Press. 2020. 280 pp.

Keri Vacanti Brondo

Review of The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction By SallieHan, CecíliaTomori (Eds.), Oxford: Routledge. 2022.676 pp.

Emma Varley

Review of Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. 269 pp.

Alicia Wright

Review of Administering Affect: Pop‐Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety By DanielWhite, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

Michael Berman

Review of After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador By Irina CarlotaSilber, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 2022. 256 pp.

Ester E. Hernández

Review of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different By Thomas W. Pearson, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 221 pp.

Aron S. Marie

Review of Aid and the Help: International Development and Transnational Extraction of Care By DinahHannaford, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 228 pp.

Kritika Pandey

Review of Care Work and Medical Travel: Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move By CeciliaVindrola‐Padros (Ed.), Lexington: Lexington Press. 2021. 214 pp.

Amy Speier

Review of Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 296 pp.

Kimberley G. Connor

Review of Living With HIV in Post‐Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame By David A.B.Murray, ed., Lanham: Lexington Books. 2021. 243 pp.

Corliss D. Heath

Review of Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything By CarrieNielsen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 163 pp.

Daniel Renfrew

Review of A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America By MichaelCarolan, Stanford, California: Redwood Press. 2021. 228 pp.

Emily Mendenhall

Review of Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados By NicoleCharles, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 196 pp.

Raphaëlle Rabanes

Review of Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care By RimaPraspaliauskiene, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2022. 146 pp.

Michelle Anne Parsons

Review of Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America By JennieGamlin, SahraGibbon, PaolaSesia, LinaBerrio (Eds.), London: UCL Press. 2022. 286 pp.

Pablo Seward Delaporte

Review of Making Diabetes: The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda By Arlena SiobhanLiggins, New York: Columbia University Press. 2020. 242 pp.1

Kayla Patterson

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

Review of Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State By MarthaLincoln, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2022. 232 pp.1

C. Michele Thompson