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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volume 39, Issue 3 (September, 2025)

    Articles

    “We Only Escort Women to the Health Facility”: Traditional birth attendants and the performance of indicator-driven care in rural Tanzania

    Megan D. Cogburn and Mohamed Yunus Rafiq

    No rush: The relational time ethic and faith-based medical clinics in the United States

    Carolyn Schwarz

    Enacting embryos: Practices, ontologies, and politics of the IVF lab post-Dobbs

    Manon Lefevre

    Euthanasia as a safeguard for living: Anticipation and incurable cancer in a Colombian context

    Camilo Sanz

    Evidence-based medicine and private clinics in Russia: Unlikely co-production of good care and profit-making

    Klasien Horstman, Masha Denisova, and Olga Zvonareva

    Rumor as ethical vernacular: Ebola and the womb in eastern Congo

    Myfanwy James

    Marshallese mothers navigating discrimination in Hawai’i: Bwebwenato as method

    Jan Brunson and Katriel Wong

    Book Reviews

    Review of Defending rumba in Havana: The sacred and Black corporeal undercommons By Maya Berry, Durham: Duke University Press. 2025. 331 pp.

    Yvonne Daniel

    Review of Fertility, health, and reproductive politics: Re-imagining rights in India By Maya Unnithan, New York, NY: Routledge. 2019. 233 pp.

    Cecilia Coale Van Hollen

    Review of Dangerous love: Sex work, drug use, and the pursuit of intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico By Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen, Berkeley: University of California Press. 2022. 188 pp.

    Sonia Rupcic

    Review of Aging and generation in Cuba: Unravelling the care crisis By Blandine Destremau-Zeitz, Lanham: Lexington Books. 2023. 243 pp.

    Elix Colon

    Review of Living together across borders: Communicative care in transnational Salvadoran families By Lynnette Arnold, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2024. 220 pp.

    Teresa M. Mares

    Review of Life at the center: Haitians and corporate Catholicism in Boston By Erica Caple James, Oakland: University of California Press. 2024. 303 pp.

    Bertin M. Louis

    Review of Biotraffic: Medicines and environmental governance in the afterlives of apartheid By Christopher Morris, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2024. 264 pp.

    Damien Droney

    Review of Mal-nutrition: Maternal health science and the reproduction of harm By Emily Yates-Doerr, Oakland: University of California Press. 2024. 268 pp.

    Rebecca Howes-Mischel

    Review of The way that leads among the lost: Life, death, and hope in Mexico City’s anexos By Angela Garcia, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2024. 272 pp.

    Agnes Mondragon-Celis