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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volume 33, Issue 3 (September 2019)

    Articles

    The Anthropology of Plastics: An Agenda for Local Studies of a Global Matter of Concern

    Gauri Pathak and Mark Nichter

    “Accept and Utilize”: Alternative Medicine, Minimality, and Ethics in an Indonesian Healing Collective

    Nicholas J. Long

    (Un) Natural Grief: Novelty, Tradition and Naturalization in Israeli Discourse on Posthumous Reproduction

    Ori Katz and Yael Hashiloni?Dolev

    Global Ambitions: Evidence, Scale, and Child Well?being in El Salvador

    Tomas Matza

    “There Is a Big Question Mark”: Managing Ambiguity in a Moroccan Maternity Ward

    Jess Marie Newman

    Maintaining the Flow: Medical Challenges to Breastfeeding and “Risky” Bodies in Mexico

    Jenna Murray López

    “Scribble Scrabble”: Migration, Young Parenting Latinas, and Digital Storytelling as Narrative Shock

    Aline C. Gubrium and Elizabeth L. Krause

    “Find that Balance:” The Impact of Cultural Consonance and Dissonance on Mental Health among Utah and Mormon Women

    Elizabeth Bingham Thomas, Erica Hawvermale, Essa Temple, and H. J. François Dengah

    Book Reviews

    Review of Wasted Wombs: Navigating Reproductive Interruptions in Cameroon. Erica van der Sijpt, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018, 280 pp.

    Alison Heller

    Review of Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Nicole C. Nelson, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 255 pp.

    Natalie Hannah Porter

    Review of Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well?being in Postsocialist Russia. Tomas Matza, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 305 pp.

    Review of A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India. Sheela Saravanan, Singapore: Springer, 2018, 183 pp.

    Holly Donahue Singh

    Review of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. Jessica M. Mulligan and Heide Castañeda, eds., New York: NYU Press, 2018, 304 pp.

    Laura A. Schmidt

    Review of Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Crystal Biruk, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 296 pp.

    Ruth J. Prince

    Review of Tangled Diagnoses. Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk. Ilana Löwy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 319 pp.

    Ayo Wahlberg

    Review of Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care. Elana Buch, New York: NYU Press, 2018, 288 pp.

    Janelle S. Taylor

    Review of Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity. Noémi Tousignant, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 210 pp.

    Stefanie Graeter

    Review of Out of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone. Mariane Ferme, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018, 318 pp.

    Danny Hoffman