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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2017)

    Articles

    Medical Cosmopolitanism in Global Dubai: A Twenty-first-century Transnational Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Depot

    Marcia C. Inhorn

    Fertility Control: Reproductive Desires, Kin Work, and Women’s Status in Contemporary India

    Holly Donahue Singh

    The Erosion of Rights to Abortion Care in the United States: A Call for a Renewed Anthropological Engagement with the Politics of Abortion

    Elise Andaya and Joanna Mishtal

    Stress, Pregnancy, and Motherhood: Implications for Birth Weights in the Borderlands of Texas

    K. Jill Fleuriet and T. S. Sunil

    Caring for Strangers: Aging, Traditional Medicine, and Collective Self-care in Post-socialist Russia

    Tatiana Chudakova

    Gatekeepers as Care Providers: The Care Work of Patient-centered Medical Home Clerical Staff

    Gary E. Rosenthal, Greg L. Stewart, Kenda R. Stewart, Michelle A. Lampman, Samantha L. Solimeo, and Sarah S. Ono

    Medical Research Participation as “Ethical Intercorporeality”: Caring for Bio-Social Bodies in a Mexican Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Study

    Emily Wentzell

    The Effects of Water Insecurity and Emotional Distress on Civic Action for Improved Water Infrastructure in Rural South Africa

    Nicola Bulled

    Book Reviews

    Review of Namibia’s Rainbow Project. Gay Rights in African Nation. Robert Lorway, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015, 155pp.

    Patrick Awondo

    Review of Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject. David Bates Nima Bassiri, New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, 368pp.

    Kathryn E. Goldfarb

    Review of Prescribing HIV Prevention: Bringing Culture into Global Health Communication. Nicola Bulled,Vol. 1, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2014, 273pp.

    Ellen Block

    Review of Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda. Lydia Boyd, Athens: University of Ohio Press,2015, 252pp.

    Susan Reynolds Whyte

    Review of Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies, and Birth. Angela N. Casteneda and Julie Johnson Searcy, eds., Bradford: Ontario: Demeter Press, 2015, 252 pp.

    Hillary Melchiors

    Review of Mental Health in the War on Terror: Culture, Science, and Statecraft. Neil Krishan Aggarwal, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, 214 pp.

    Erin P. Finley

    Review of Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth. Gaymon Bennett, New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, 316 pp.

    Nathan Emmerich

    Review of Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS. Shanti Parikh, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, 320 pp.

    Margaret S. Winchester

    Review of Necropolitics: Mass Graves and the Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights. Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 269 pp.

    Rachel Carmen Ceasar

    Review of Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice. Isabell Herrmans, New York: Berghahn, 2014, 304pp.

    M. Cameron Hay