Suffering and sentiment: Exploring the vicissitudes of pain and experience in Yap
C. Jason Throop
University of California Press, 2010. 353 pp., US$ 24.95 (paperback)
Reviewed by Abbe Rose Kopra, University of Chicago
In the 1985 ground-breaking work, The body in pain: The making and unmaking of the world, Elaine Scarry ties the “world-destroying” power of pain to its …
Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Elly Teman
University of California Press, 2010
384 pp.
US$ 21.95 (Paperback)
Reviewed by Lauren Schleicher, Wayne State University
Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self is an ethnographic account of gestational surrogacy arrangements in a Jewish Israeli context. According to Teman, surrogacy as a topic has …
The latest Body & Society is a special issue on “Bodily Integrity” with a number of articles that may interest our readers. Here are the titles and abstracts:
Lisa Blackman, Bodily Integrity
Margrit Shildrick, Some Reflections on the Socio-cultural and Bioscientific Limits of Bodily Integrity
Vivian Sobchack, Living a ‘Phantom Limb’: On the Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity …
Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities?
by Karen-Sue Taussig?
Duke University Press, 2009
264 pp., $22.95 (paperback)
Reviewed by Abigail Baim-Lance (Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY and Researcher, New York State Department of Health, AIDS Institute)
At its brightest moments, Karen-Sue Taussig’s Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities (2009) deftly challenges universalist assumptions about the genetic sciences. Taussig …
This announcement was sent along by Annette Leibing of the Université de Montréal:
This month PUL (Presses de l’Université de Laval) will be publishing an edited volume on “technologies of hope” – those medical technologies that promise and create expectations:
Les technologies de l’espoir: La fabrique d’une histoire à accomplir
Annette Leibing et Virginie Tournay (eds.)
Contents:
I. …
It seems like there’s another special issue coming out every other day recently. The latest is an issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness on “Embodiment and its Extremes” guest edited by Karen-Sue Taussig and by frequent Somatosphere contributor Matthew Wolf-Meyer.
Here’s the TOC along with abstracts:
Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Karen-Sue Taussig, Extremities: …