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…
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),…
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…
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…
Alcoholism & Recovery in Guatemala
A review of The Sober Self: Discourse and Identity of Recovering Alcoholics in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, by Carla…
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…
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…
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,…
Multiple Personality & Social Movements
A review of Know Thyselves: Theorizing Multiple Personality through Social Movements, by Jennifer Taylor. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known…
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…