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Anthropology

Human Rights

Disabled People Empowerment in Museums

A review of How Can Disabled People Be Empowered to Influence Decision-making in Museums? by Heather Jayne Hollins. Focusing on a group of young disab...
Med Anthro

Physicians in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire

A review of The Foundation of a Professional Group: Physicians in the Nineteenth Century Modernizing Century Modernizing Ottoman Empire (1839-1908), b...
Japan

Tokugawa Medicine: Writing, Authority and Practice, 1650-1850

A review of Writing, Authority and Practice in Tokugawa Medicine, 1650-1850, by Daniel Trambaiolo. Scholars interested in the history of medicine in e...
Eastern Central Europe

Experiences of Aging in Post-Socialist Poland

A review of Personhood in Places: Aging, Memory, and Relatedness in Postsocialist Poland by Jessica Choate Robbins In both media discourses and quotid...
Latin America

Alcoholism & Recovery in Guatemala

A review of The Sober Self: Discourse and Identity of Recovering Alcoholics in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, by Carla Pezzia. “The Sober Self” d...
Bioethics

Cochlear Implants, the Deaf Community & Neuroculture

A review of Parents of Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Disability, Medicalization and Neuroculture, by Laura K. Mauldin. As cochlear implantatio...
Med Anthro

Medical Insecurity in Ethiopia’s Somali Region

A review of The Aftermath of Aid: Medical Insecurity in the Northern Somali Region of Ethiopia, by Lauren Carruth. In The Aftermath of Aid, Lauren...
Med Anthro

Avian Flu in Vietnam

A review of Threatening Lives: Controlling Avian Flu in Vietnam’s Poultry Economy, by Natalie Porter. Since its appearance in 1997, highly pathogenic ...
Med Anthro

Multiple Personality & Social Movements

A review of Know Thyselves: Theorizing Multiple Personality through Social Movements, by Jennifer Taylor. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), former...
Med Anthro

Cholera & Public Health in Post-Transition Vietnam

A review of The Causes of Cholera: Public Health in Post-Transition Vietnam, by Martha Lincoln. In 2007, a series of anomalous cholera outbreaks occur...
Med Anthro

Aging, Sex & HIV Infection in Rural Malawi

A review of Older Adults’ Experiences of Aging, Sex, and HIV Infection in Rural Malawi, by Emily Freeman. Emily Freeman’s dissertation provides an inn...
Latin America

Unwanted Pregnancy & Abortion in Bolivia 1952-2010

A review of An Open Secret: The Hidden History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1952-2010, by Natalie Kimball. In an innovative...
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