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Anthropology

Latin America

Food & Balance in Rural Yucatan

A review of Practices of Care: Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán, by Lauren Wynne. Care is a local category of practice...
Med Anthro

Canadian Regulatory Evaluation of “Alternative” Medicines

A review of An Empirical Study of Scientists’ Reasoning in the Canadian Regulatory Evaluation of Traditional, Homeopathic, Herbal, and other “Natural”...
Med Anthro

Intimate Partner Violence & HIV in Uganda

A review of Living with Globalization: The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Infection in Uganda, by Margaret Winchester. In her disse...
Med Anthro

Phenomenology & Medical Anthropology

A Waltz with Phenomenology: Discovering the Phenomenological Method within Medical Anthropology Phenomenology, as developed within anthropology, is a ...
Bioethics

The Organ Trade in Bangladesh

A review of “Living Cadavers” in Bangladesh:  Ethics of the Human Organ Bazaar, by Monir Moniruzzaman. From the moment of organ transplantation’s ince...
Med Anthro

Finding Your Feet in the Field

Finding Your Feet in the Field: Defining Your Role as a Researcher Between the years 2010-2012, I conducted research for my doctoral dissertation in t...
Bioethics

Cesarean Births in Taiwan

A review of Debates on Gender and Technology: Cesarean Births in Taiwan, by Chen-I Kuan. Through examining the conduct of cesarean sections in Taiwan ...
Med Anthro

Biopolitics & American Flu Pandemics

A review of Biopolitics and the Influenza Pandemics of 1918 and 2009 in the United States: Power, Immunity, and the Law, by Alina Baciu. Like...
China

Chinese Medicine in 20th c. France & Italy

A review of La médecine chinoise dans la pratique médicale en France et en Italie, de 1930 à nos jours. Représentations, réception, tentatives d’intég...
Bioethics

Science Wednesdays on Dissertation Reviews

Starting from September 12 2012, Dissertation Reviews will give you a big hit of science every Wednesday — from Bioethics Dissertation Reviews (...
Latin America

Medical Control of Fertility in Peru

A review of A History of the Medical Control of Fertility in Peru, 1895-1976, by Raul Necochea Lopez. In his dissertation, Raul Lopez challenges the.....
Culture, Society & Politics

Genetic Discrimination in the U.S.

A review of Genetic Discrimination: A Genealogy of an American Problem, by Janet Elizabeth Childerhose. Many worlds are tethered together in the fine ...
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