The end of the year is a time to look back, to take stock, and to celebrate.  As it turns out, 2013 has been great for book reviews on Somatosphere and there’s much to celebrate.  We would like to offer sincere thanks to all our reviewers––the generosity of thought (and time, and labor) brought to the reviews is greatly appreciated.   It is hard not to feel at times adrift in an ever-widening sea of scholarship (filled with books that we’ll get to once we finish this paper, or that abstract, or one more email…), and as adrift as we may feel, these reviews are little buoys that cross our paths unexpectedly.  Look for more of them floating over the shoals in the New Year.  ––And to our readers, thanks for your support!

Our book reviews for 2013:

• Anne Pollock, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference; Reviewed by Colin Halverson
• Katherine Sharpe, Coming of Age on Zoloft: how Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are; Reviewed by Kelly McKinney
• Kaitlin Bell Barnett, Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up; Reviewed by Kelly McKinney
• Tanya Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God; Reviewed by Rebecca J. Lester
• Clara Han, Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile; Reviewed by Larisa Jasarevic
• Sienna R. Craig, Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine; Reviewed by Stephan Kloos
• Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson (Eds.), Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases; Reviewed by Kristin Childers Buschle
• Rachel Prentice, Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education; Reviewed by Talia Gordon
• Elizabeth Anne Davis, Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece; Reviewed by Erica Rockhold
• Roger Cooter (with Claudia Stein), Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine; Book announcement by Todd Meyers
• Todd Meyers, The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy; Book announcement by Eugene Raikhel
• Liah Greenfeld, Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience; Reviewed by Contance Cummings
• Maria Berghs, War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone; Reviewed by Seth Messinger
• Sherine Hamdy, Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt; Reviewed by Summar Saad
• Karen Nakamura, A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan; Reviewed by Erica Rockhold
• Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human; Reviewed by Frédéric Keck
• Emily Wentzell, Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness and Viagra in Mexico; Reviewed by Maria Berghs
• Emily Mendenhall, Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women; Reviewed by Jessica Hardin
• Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture; Reviewed by Des Fitzgerald
• Seth Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States; Reviewed by Peter Benson
• Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling; Reviewed by Angela Woods
• Morten Axel Pedersen, Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia; Reviewed by Tatiana Chudakova
• Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage; Reviewed by Raad Fadaak
• Margaret Lock, The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging; Reviewed by Aaron Seaman
• Alexander Edmonds, Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil; Reviewed by Hanna Mantila

Image credit: Job Koelewijn, Untitled (Lemniscate), 2006; wood, books; 125 x 780 x 240 cm; photo: Erik van den Boom, Galerie Fons Welters.