Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2024)

Review of A life of worry: Politics, mental health, and Vietnam’s age of anxiety By AllenTran, Berkeley: University of California Press. 2023. 196 pp.

Merav Shohet

Review of Developing to scale: Technology and the making of global health By HeidiMorefield, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2023. 232 pp.

Laura A. Meek

Review of Social palliation: Canadian Muslims’ storied lives on living and dying By ParinDossa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2021. 216 pp.

Hannah Ali

Review of The anthropology of obstetrics and obstetricians: The practice, maintenance, and reproduction of a biomedical profession By RobbieDavis‐Floyd and AshishPremkumar (Eds.), New York: Berghahn Series. Three volume series.Volume 1 – Obstetricians speak: On training, practice, fear, and transformation. 2023. 345 pp.Volume 2 – Cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics: Anthropological analyses and critiques of obstetricians’ practices. 2023. 334 pp.Volume 3 – Obstetric violence and systemic disparities: Can obstetrics be humanized and decolonized?2023. 376 pp.

Morgen A. Chalmiers

Review of The evening of life: The challenges of aging and dying well By PaulScherz, Joseph E.Davis, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 214 pp.

Marlaine Figueroa Gray

Review of Arc of interference: Medical anthropology for worlds on edge By JoãoBiehl, VincanneAdams (Eds.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. 385 pp.

Sarah S. Willen

Review of Nuclear ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone By RyoMorimoto, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 339 pp.

Kathryn E. Goldfarb

Review of When death falls apart: Making and unmaking the necromaterial traditions of contemporary Japan By HannahGould, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2023. 168 pp.

Susan Orpett Long

Review of Circumcision and medicine in modern Turkey By OymanBasaran, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2023. 232 pp.

Aslihan Sanal

Review of Landscapes of care: Immigration and health in rural America By ThurkaSangaramoorthy, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. 2023. 173 pp.

Elizabeth Carpenter‐Song

Review of The worlds of public health, anthropological excursions By DidierFassin, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2023. 274 pp.

Mayssa Rekhis and Seth M. Holmes

Review of Ayahuasca as liquid divinity: An ontological approach By André van der Braak, Lanham: Lexington Books. 2023. 229 pp.

Shana Harris

Review of Abortion care as moral work: Ethical considerations of maternal and fetal bodies By JohannaSchoen (ed)., New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 202 pp.

Brenna McCaffrey

Review of Milk Craze: Body, science, and hope in China By VeronicaMak, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2021. 256 pp.

Koyna Tomar

Review of The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By ThomasCousins, New York: Fordham University Press. 2023. 320 pp.

Devika Singh Shekhawat

Review of Voices from the front lines: The pandemic and the humanities By Katherine RatzanPeeler and Richard M.Ratzan (Eds.), San Francisco, CA: University of California Health Humanities Press. 2024. 336 pp.

Blake Erickson