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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volume 38, Issue 1 (March 2024)

    Articles

    Naturalizing unnatural death in Los Angeles County jails

    Nicholas Shapiro and Terence Keel

    Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference

    César Padilla?Altamira and Ciara Kierans

    Technologies of care and the engineering imaginary: Two approaches to assistive device design for the Global South

    Vaia Y. Sigounas

    A Heart for the Care: Affect, Kin, and Care Work in a Zambian Hospital

    Comfort Asante, Emma Nelson Bunkley, Jean Hunleth, Lindsey Kaufman, Sam Miti, and Sarah Burack

    Ineffective responses to unlikely outbreaks: Hypothesis building in newly?emerging infectious disease outbreaks

    Andrew A Cunningham, Freya L Jephcott, J H Kofi Bonney, James L N Wood, P Wenzel Geissler, Stephen Nyarko?Ameyaw, and Ursula Maier

    Book Reviews

    Review of An Imperative to Cure Principles and Practices of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize By James B. Waldram, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2020. 271 pp.

    Miguel Cuj

    Review of Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India By Laurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos (Eds.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 211 pp.

    Tawni Tidwell

    Review of Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and Power By Nancy E. Riley and Nilanjana Chatterjee, Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press. 2023. 224 pp.

    Jessica L. Lott

    Review of Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease By Alexandre I.R. White, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 304 pp.

    Agustin Fuentes

    Review of Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk By Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 142 pp.

    Mara H. Buchbinder

    Review of Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By Matthew C. Canfield, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

    Ash McLeod

    Review of The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice By Melissa Checker, New York: NYU Press. 2020. 280 pp.

    Keri Vacanti Brondo

    Review of The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction By Sallie Han, Cecília Tomori (Eds.), Oxford: Routledge. 2022. 676 pp.

    Emma Varley

    Review of Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India By Michele Ilana Friedner, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. 269 pp.

    Alicia Wright

    MAQ: Medical Anthropology Quarterly

    Review of After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador By Irina Carlota Silber, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 2022. 256 pp.

    Ester E. Hernández

    Review of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different By Thomas W. Pearson, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 221 pp.

    Aron S. Marie

    Review of Aid and the Help: International Development and Transnational Extraction of Care By Dinah Hannaford, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 228 pp.

    Kritika Pandey

    Review of Care Work and Medical Travel: Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move By Cecilia Vindrola?Padros (Ed.), Lexington: Lexington Press. 2021. 214 pp.

    Amy Speier

    Review of Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By Jessica Barnes, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 296 pp.

    Kimberley G. Connor

    Review of Living With HIV in Post?Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame By David A. B. Murray, ed., Lanham: Lexington Books. 2021. 243 pp.

    Corliss D. Heath

    Review of Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything By Carrie Nielsen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 163 pp.

    Daniel Renfrew

    Review of A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America By Michael Carolan, Stanford, California: Redwood Press. 2021. 228 pp.

    Emily Mendenhall

    Review of Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados By Nicole Charles, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 196 pp.

    Raphaëlle Rabanes

    Review of Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care By Rima Praspaliauskiene, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2022. 146 pp.

    Michelle Anne Parsons

    Review of Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America By Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Lina Berrio (Eds.), London: UCL Press. 2022. 286 pp.

    Pablo Seward Delaporte

    Review of Making Diabetes: The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda By Arlena Siobhan Liggins, New York: Columbia University Press. 2020. 242 pp.

    Kayla Patterson

    Review of Embodied Politics: Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency and Health Promotion in California By Rebecca J. Hester, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 208 pp.

    Óscar F. Gil?García

    SMA Letter to President re ACA Feb 16 2017

    Review of An Imperative to Cure Principles and Practices of Q’eqchi ’ Maya Medicine in Belize By James B.Waldram, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2020. 271 pp.

    Miguel Cuj

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    Review of Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and Power By Nancy E.Riley and NilanjanaChatterjee, Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press. 2023. 224 pp.

    Jessica L. Lott

    Review of Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease By Alexandre I.R.White, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 304 pp.

    Agustin Fuentes

    Review of Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk By HyeyoungOh Nelson, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 142 pp.

    Mara H. Buchbinder

    Review of Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By Matthew C.Canfield, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

    Ash McLeod

    Review of The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice By MelissaChecker, New York: NYU Press. 2020. 280 pp.

    Keri Vacanti Brondo

    Review of The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction By SallieHan, CecíliaTomori (Eds.), Oxford: Routledge. 2022.676 pp.

    Emma Varley

    Review of Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. 269 pp.

    Alicia Wright

    Review of Administering Affect: Pop?Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety By DanielWhite, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

    Michael Berman

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    Review of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different By Thomas W. Pearson, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 221 pp.

    Aron S. Marie

    Review of Aid and the Help: International Development and Transnational Extraction of Care By DinahHannaford, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 228 pp.

    Kritika Pandey

    Review of Care Work and Medical Travel: Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move By CeciliaVindrola?Padros (Ed.), Lexington: Lexington Press. 2021. 214 pp.

    Amy Speier

    Review of Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 296 pp.

    Kimberley G. Connor

    Review of Living With HIV in Post?Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame By David A.B.Murray, ed., Lanham: Lexington Books. 2021. 243 pp.

    Corliss D. Heath

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    Review of A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America By MichaelCarolan, Stanford, California: Redwood Press. 2021. 228 pp.

    Emily Mendenhall

    Review of Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados By NicoleCharles, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 196 pp.

    Raphaëlle Rabanes

    Review of Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care By RimaPraspaliauskiene, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2022. 146 pp.

    Michelle Anne Parsons

    Review of Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America By JennieGamlin, SahraGibbon, PaolaSesia, LinaBerrio (Eds.), London: UCL Press. 2022. 286 pp.

    Pablo Seward Delaporte

    Review of Making Diabetes: The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda By Arlena SiobhanLiggins, New York: Columbia University Press. 2020. 242 pp.1

    Kayla Patterson

    Review of Embodied Politics: Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency and Health Promotion in California By Rebecca J.Hester, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.2022. 208 pp.

    Óscar F. Gil?García

    Review of Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State By MarthaLincoln, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2022. 232 pp.1

    C. Michele Thompson